Who is a bitch to Huggies? Not this chick!

I have some good news!!  I have wanted to announce this over the past week but didn't want to jinx it.  Rachel is using the potty!!  Who is a bitch to Huggies?  Not this chick!

This was our seventh attempt and it started out like a regular Sunday, every 10 minutes on her little potty.  When she peed successfully, I thought it was a fluke, since I make her sit there for 15 minutes and give her my phone for entertainment.  That day, we had a couple of successes and a couple of pairs of wet shorts.  But she started to apologize to me for have the accident.  Yes, there was the shame!  (Please keep in mind I didn't say this out loud)

When she went to school, little by little (over the past 5 days) she was peeing on the potty more and having less accidents.  Looking back, this actually happened quite quickly but in the moment I was trying to figure out when I was going to go to Costco/Target for my next supply of Huggies.  But then there was a day of no accidents and then another, and another.

The pride in her face is amazing.  She will tell anyone that she pees on the potty like a big girl and her favorite undies are the ones with Dora.  Thankfully, she started pooping on the potty too.  Because she wasn't as sure about the poop as the pee, she would just hold it for days.  After awhile she would dart back and forth (kind of like a fly caught in a lamp) and ask for a diaper...because that is where you poop.  But last night she had enough of that and told me that she just pooped on the potty in a very matter of fact way.

She didn't take advantage of any sort of bribe...she just did this when she was ready.  She likes to say that she will "try later" a lot.  She likes to count up to 20 before she flushes...except the automatic flush in Bertucci's, that figuratively scared the crap out of her.

I hope she can see my pride in my face too but also I am a little sad.  She is not a toddler anymore, she is just a young girl.  Actually a young girls that isn't very tall, so she needs to step up on a stool to sit on the big girl potty (with a special Dora seat).  I am so afraid she is going to fall in...if that happens, different blog, different day.