Potty

I have been thinking a lot about potty training lately. I guess the kiddos hit 2 and it's just the "next step". I am so not ready to potty train and I really don't think Riley & Ryan are either. I hear over and over that you should not do it until they are ready, so we are going to save ourselves the power struggles and wait. The good news is that their teachers at Open Arms are fully on board with this and said they are ready to help whenever we all are. They did say they thought Riley would do it, but that Ryan isn't ready yet. So many questions about this. Is it ok to train one and not the other? Is it better to just bite the bullet and train them both? Since I don't use public restrooms very often myself, I keep having heart palpitations about visiting every public restroom in Atlanta, which I know will be my reality very soon. So, I guess I'm selfishly totally fine with waiting until we are all ready. With all that said, we've got the potty books ready, we talk about potty, we go in with mommy to potty and we have a little potty for them to sit on. They like to sit on it on their way to the bath tub and most nights it's just sitting. The first time they sat, I made a hissing sound trying to mimic water, so of course now they make this same sound the entire time they sit on the toilet...what have I created? The good news and the reason I decided to post about this is that they have each gone pee pee in their potty! Just once each, but man were we so proud of them! I look forward to being on the other side of this process...