A Miracle

For two days A-chan has consistently used the potty! It's something that we had begun to despair about, but now we have hope that diapers will soon be a distant memory. (Except for overnight and on long car rides...)

All of our attempts to get her to use the potty had been completely rejected or ignored for a long time. We really had just about given up. What caused the change of heart? Well...I have a theory that she heard us talking the other night. She was in the living room playing with the cats while we were in the office and candidly talking about how utterly depressed we were that she wouldn't even try to go to the potty. We didn't think that she could hear us, or that she would pay attention if so. But then when we stopped talking for a little bit she asked us to keep talking. We asked her if she knew what we were talking about and she said, "yes, me!" At the time we didn't really think much about it, but it was the very next morning that she immediately started using the potty. No dithering about it either, every time she's had to go, it's been in the potty! For two days!

I don't know whether to feel elated that it's finally happening or to feel guilty that she overheard us talking about it and decided to change. Hopefully the potty gods will continue to smile down upon us.