I was sitting at my desk today when the phone rang.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d barely said “hello” before I heard Ava’s sweet little voice say, “Hi!\u00c2\u00a0 I went poop in the potty!”<\/p>\n
So, this is huge.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve put almost no effort into getting Ava to use the toilet.\u00c2\u00a0 After an initial (failed) push (sorry) when we first bought her training seat, we totally backed off and let her do her own thing at her own pace.\u00c2\u00a0 Some days she’d use the potty; most days she wouldn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 Number 1 was easy, but it was like she was almost scared to do the deuce.\u00c2\u00a0 Lately, though, there’s been a change.\u00c2\u00a0 I suspect it’s probably because there are other kids her age showing up to daycare wearing “big girl underpants,” and Ava loves <\/em>wearing big girl underpants.\u00c2\u00a0 Who doesn’t?\u00c2\u00a0 She’s finally starting to understand that the path to constant wearing of big girl underpants is to use the potty.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s fascinating to watch her go through this process, to modify her behavior to get something she wants.<\/p>\n The highlight of my week, then, was listening to my two-year-old tell me all about poop.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, one of the highlights, I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 We got a sitter for Ava last night so we could go to dinner with friends.\u00c2\u00a0 We were running around getting ready to leave, prepping Ava for bed, and giving instructions to the sitter, when Ava looked up at Leah and said, “I have to take a dump.”<\/p>\n Now, Ava learned this from me.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t say it all <\/em>the time, only when I know it’ll rile Leah (which is every time I say it).\u00c2\u00a0 I typically add a little emphasis for Leah’s benefit, but Ava’s proclamation was so dry and matter of fact, it was hilarious.\u00c2\u00a0 She just thought that was a totally normal and acceptable way to relay her feelings (and, hey, shouldn’t<\/em> it be?).\u00c2\u00a0 It was definitely one of those times when you know you shouldn’t reinforce your child’s behavior by laughing at what she’s done, so I had to duck into another room and bury my face in a pillow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was sitting at my desk today when the phone rang.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d barely said “hello” before I heard Ava’s sweet little voice say, “Hi!\u00c2\u00a0 I went poop in the potty!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-dw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}