Nora is ready to potty train. Actually she has been ready for at least a month.

The problem is, I don’t know if I am quite ready.

A few months ago I decided to get out the potty chair. I put it in the powder room. Nora loved it immediately. Right away she wanted to take off her diaper and sit on it. She proceeded to take off her diaper and sit on the potty about a thousand times a day, but she never did anything. Mostly she just wanted to sit there and play with the toilet paper.

A few weeks ago she started to get it, and she figured out how to pee on the potty. A few mornings I just left her diaper off and let her run around naked. She did pretty well at going to the potty when she needed to go.

Here in North Carolina we decided to get her a potty chair. Of course, she loved it. Every day she has been sitting on it and peeing every once in a while.

The last couple of days she has started to tell us when she has to poop too. It is so funny. She says “I poop it” over and over. It comes out sounding like I pooped, so we check her diaper and don’t find anything. Sure enough a few minutes later she poops. I finally figured out she tells me that before she has to go.

Today she had a big break through. She got up this morning and her diaper was really wet. I took off her pajamas and diaper and she got up and ran away. I decided to just let her run around naked for the morning. Every time she had to go she just went into the bathroom and did it herself. She came and got me once and saying “I did it! Come on.” She grabbed me by the hand and took me to the bathroom. I looked into her potty and she pooped! She was so proud of herself.

I left her diaper off until it was time for her nap, and she didn’t have any accidents. So, I am thinking it is finally time for me to bite the bullet and start potty training her. She is the earliest by almost a year of any of my kids. I kept thinking I should wait, and that it would be easier. But she is definitely ready. I guess a few weeks of running to every potty in sight will be worth it to have my last child out of diapers!