Rose is a big girl now!!! We knew it would happen someday and it did. She pretty much trained herself to use the toilet this month. I thought she was ready when she was 18 months old because she showed all the signs that the books tell you to look for and say they are ready… well she sat on the toilet a lot when she was little but she could never actually go to the bathroom on it. When she turned 2 and then 2 and 1/2 we thought she was going to be potty trained and again she loved sitting on the toilet but she never had success. I tried one more time in August before Millie was born but it was still a no go. Finally she turned 3 on october 1st and that is the magic number for my kids. All of my kids have waited until they turned 3 and then it’s been a pretty easy training experience. None of my kids have physically been able to figure it out before then. So Rose followed suit and the week that she turned 3 she started using the toilet. She tells me when she needs to go and i don’t have to ask every hour if she needs to go. She got lots of lip gloss and head bands and coloring books the first 3 days of successes and then she had to fill up her potty chart to be able to open her Dora Mega Blocks. So that is her story.

She has had a few accidents – usually when she is outside or in the basement and having too much fun to make it to the bathroom. She is usually dry in the mornings so i’m thinking she will be able to ditch the night time diaper soon (big sister is still working on that one.) Every time Rose goes to the bathroom Raymond follows her in and BUGS her the whole time! He gets out the training toilet to help. He gets into the TP. He slams the lid closed…. It’s really quite annoying. It’s crossed my mind to train him while we’re at it and I have let him sit on the toilet throughout the process but as history has proven he is not physically ready.

That is the potty story for Rose Kristine, our Tiny Dancer. One more thing to check off of my never ending list 🙂 We have recently crossed off learning to ride 2 wheelers. Benji finally learned to tie his shoes. Packer is starting to break through on his reading. Raymond is officially off of the bottle… next priority is getting Cali to make it through the night without a diaper…. here we go 🙂