Houston, we are now going potty

Maddie is almost, pretty much potty-trained. Halleluah! Seriously, this has been a 1+ year long struggle. Potty training, by far, has been the most challenging act of parenting I've experienced. Even more so than getting your child to sleep through the night. You know that will happen eventually. But with potty training, well, you hope it will happen eventually, but you also imagine yourself to be that one parent whose kid is still in diapers in kindergarten. And I did everything by the book with Maddie, as well as some other methods, but in the end it all ended up to be a matter of will.

Three weeks ago Maddie's best friend Grace came over to play. Maddie saw her go potty and immediately, from that moment on, started going potty herself, by herself, without any prompting and without almost no accidents. She had known all along, but she wanted to do it on her own schedule. How does that bode for her teenage years?

While we're on the Pee and Poo subject, take a look at this. Aren't these the toys you've always wanted?