Potty Humor

So we're going on about 3 solid weeks of total diaperless magic. What fun! Ella just turned on the switch and from then on we've been golden.

A few funny moments of a newly potty-trained 2 1/2 year old:

1. Yesterday Ella was sitting on the big toilet peeing. She farted. I gave her a look, as if to prompt her to say, "excuse me," to which she replied, "Daddy, you don't need to say excuse me when you fart on the toilet." I guess that's right--even if you're in the bathroom with someone else. I guess we don't want her to be saying excuse me to herself until she's 80.

2. Just now, Ella insisted that she go to the bathroom by herself. I told her if she needed me to call me and I'd come help. A few minutes later I heard the familiar whine of an about to be frustrated Ella. She was standing with her pants at her ankles trying to turn on the bathroom light. She can sit, and use it, and wipe, and flush, and even wash her hands...but she still can't reach the light. Drat the luck of that lack of independence--for all of us!

Ms. Fix-It

On Sunday morning, Ella dropped the garage door opener, and I put the pieces back together, and it didn’t work, so I told her that we must have broken it. I didn’t know how to open the garage door without the opener, so just said we’d wait for Daddy to come back from Atlanta on Tuesday.
Then, yesterday, Ella wanted to ride her bike to the park, and I said we couldn’t, because the garage door wouldn’t open:
"Why not?"
"Remember, we dropped it and broke it, and now it doesn’t work."
"Mommy, it isn’t broken, you just need to put the circles back in."
"What circles?"
"The little circles that came out of the garage door opener."
"Where are they?"
"I put them with my penguin and his skateboard in the corner."
Sure enough, there next to the penguin were the 2 batteries. The garage door opener works just fine.