Best Birthday Present Ever!

For the past several months, you have showed zero interest in going near the toilet or ever even sitting on your potty. While many of your friends were happily shedding their diapers, you were vehemently demanding yours whenever I suggested you could just run around the house naked. While you demonstrated all the signs of readiness (according to the internet) you were completely uninterested, even anti-toilet. Although you decorated your pink potty with stickers, you wouldn’t dare sit on it ever ever ever. I tried a variety of bribery tactics to no avail. We talked about having a big party when we got to the end of the diaper road (A party! With cupcakes!) and any present you wanted. Still nothing. Gail, the head of Poppyseed told me that we should just drop it, tell you that when you are ready and you can just let us know. Weeks passed. Nothing.

Then on May 24, I opened the closet and discovered that we were all out of diapers. This was not a ploy. Just an observation. Immediately, you replied “That’s okay. I’ll wear underwear” “Who are you and what did you do with my daughter?”, I thought. That day we went to Central Park and when you told me you had to pee, we found a private spot on the grass. At my birthday dinner, you peed on me twice in the restaurant . As any good mother would, I just sat there and pretended nothing was happening. The next day, you had one accident at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. Clara noticed water on the floor and told Grandma someone spilled. You looked at the puddle and said quizzically “What happened?” Grandma and I both said we didn’t know, someone must have spilled something and we quickly cleaned it up. And that was that. No more accidents. You have gone in lots of different bathrooms. You always tell when you have a peepee. You are very excited when it comes quickly. We are really proud of you. And you are really proud of yourself!

You did have a few interesting observations as we crossed this massive bridge:

“I’m not sure which I like better, underwear or diapers. I think diapers but underwear is more comfortable.”

“I don’t really like underwear. They’re drippy.”

You are right on both accounts.