Potty Training! Scary!

We started underwear and potty training steps, and it is so scary. The toddler has been showing us she is ready for a good while now, running to specific places to crouch and poop, trying to take off her diaper before and after she pees, but I have been hesitant because she is not the best at speaking to communicate yet, she can tell you what she wants with gestures and signs and doesn't seem to care to speak unless your really not paying attention to her, or she really has to tell you she didn't do something, and we take a lot of road trips so she won't be able to communicate her need to use the bathroom as well as a mommy would like, but she is outgrowing the largest size of iPlay swim diapers at 20 months old, and size 6 huggies are even too snug after a big meal.

So we bought Pull Ups which we will probably use at night until we wean off the full bottles around bed time, and underwear, and we have been spending more time acclimating her to the potty she has been peeing on since she was 6 months old. It was really about curiosity then, sitting when mommy sat since she didn't want to be apart and she would just go most of the time, this is different she is more mobile, more opinionated, more fun.

Tonight she had a dry hour before bed, with a little potty sitting and playing up and down with her panties, we will try for longer tomorrow, and more the day after that, until this process is done, wooooo. I just hope she doesn't use the diaper free time to pee on the cat like she did every time she had naked time when she was itty bitty.

Toddlers and pets

My daughter LOVES to feed our dog and "torture" our cat, I say torture, but the cat totally digs everything the toddler does, all the fur tugging, tail pulling, and face smushing.  Without a doubt my cat abandoned me when I got pregnant, the thing growing in my belly was more important to her, now they nap together, they hog my bed together, they follow each other like shadows, and even climb the cat tree together.

Unfortunately because she feeds him so much, the dog is starting to think he should be allowed to chew on EVERYTHING she hands him, thus none of her toys are safe, but especially her squeaky Easter eggs, as seen at this link The crazy squeaky eggs. He has chewed up several, the first was day one, I had to reorder them within 24 hours of receiving them, which is intense!

Because she has pets that give her vocal warnings and she experiences animals, she is good with most animals which makes me proud, though when both my mom's dogs bit her, my mom insisted it was because my daughter isn't good with dogs. Which is hogwash, but that is a thought process for another day.