Here We Go Again

Today brought me face to face once again with my least favorite subject on parenting: potty training. This morning Clare dragged Sage's old potty chair into the middle of the room and said "Potty? I go potty?" Really? Already? Because she's got another week of being only one year old so I figure I should have at least six more months available to make lame excuses of why we haven't started down that road. But my sweet, little darling's demands are getting louder and more insistent and since I definitely do not want to direct anything negative towards that chair I smile and sweetly say, "Okay, let's try!" with as much excitement as I can muster. Thus began the morning of "Potty!" and the subsequent running to the little white varmint so I can strip off her diaper and then watch her sit for two seconds and then jump up and yell "All done!" In case you were wondering, not one of those trips were actually successful but then, I wasn't expecting them to be. Her excitement was catchy though and when she woke up from her nap with the same subject on her mind, I made a risky decision by stripping her down to bum, plopping the detestable seat in front of the tv and plopped "Elmo's Potty Time" into the dvd player. I figure if anyone can get the idea through her head, it should be Elmo. She sat for awhile before the thrill of being diaper-less got to her. There were scoots around the house and dances in front of the seat but every so often she'd come back for a sit. I noticed that she was starting to stuff toys into the vestibule for germs and as I was explaining to her that this was not for toys, only --- and ----, I noticed her socks were wet. I must say this didn't surprise me or disappoint me in the least. I know I jumped the gun a bit but curiosity had gotten the best of me. I started to look for the scene of the crime and when I finally found it I had to laugh out loud. The little stinker had stood right on top of an Elmo book and drenched it. And not just any Elmo book but a book with an Elmo puppet built right into the middle of it. She literally peed on Elmo! I guess Elmo did have sort of influence on her!