Birthday Girl!

Little Miss Almost Four is now Little Miss Four.  She was delighted to recieve two beautiful Disney princess dresses along with a myriad of other sparkly, glittery, pink, shimmery little girl things.  Nana got her a lovely yellow princess cake, just like LM4 asked for.

But the real excitement with turning four was the promise that LM4 would do poo-poos in the toilet.  All along, LM4 had come up with various excuses as to why she couldn't go on the toilet--she'd never seen school before, Nemo says crabs live in the bottom of the toilet, she was a big girl baby.  Even the promise (or bribery) of Timbits couldn't inspire her to do her business in the toilet.  So as her birthday approached, I seriously thought she was just going to make another excuse.

Bedtime last night:

Me:  "Ok honey, time for bed, and now that you are a big four year old, no more night time panties.  If you have pee-pees, you can go to the toilet, even in the night time.  If you forget and go in your bed, there is towel to catch it and here is a clean towel to put down after and go back to sleep."

LM4:  "Or poo-poos.  If I have poo-poos, I can put it in the toilet."

Me:  "Um, oh yes, yes, that's right honey, pee-pees or poo-poos.  Good night bubba, Mommy loves you."

And off I went.  Then, a few minutes later, it happened.

"Mommy, Mommy, come and see!  I put some poo-poos in the toilet!  Look, I really did!  I can't believe it!"

And she did.  And she proceeded to do it three more times before bed.  She is very eager to keep practicing cleaning her bum, and as promised, Daddy took her out for Timbits first thing this morning.

Another hurdle jumped.  For her and me.