My special, stubborn little girl

Warning....this entry includes the words pee pee, poop, and other similar words. If you are too fragile I would advise to not continue reading this entry. (Thank goodness I didn't include pictures in this one)

We have been trying for a long time to get Ellie potty trained and then finally I just thought...she is such a stubborn little girl and when the time is right she will do it herself. Well today and yesterday she decided that she was ready, but in order for her to do it she insisted on wearing absolutely nothing, except her dress up high heels...can you picture this already? Yesterday we were downstairs and I looked over at Ellie and she was holding herself and her eyes looked like they were about to pop out of her head...She finally realized that there is a feeling you get when you have to go. "I have to go potty mama!" She ran right past the downstairs toilet and started running up the stairs...still holding herself. I was really impressed that she actually made it up all the way without an accident. That is one of the success stories.

Today Ellie woke up throwing up, so she wasn't feeling all that well, but she insisted on running around naked again to be able to go in her to-to. I was talking on the phone with a friend and Ellie came running out of my room and went right into the bathroom. A couple minutes later she came running out and announced that she did one big poop in the toilet...yeah Ellie, what a big girl you are. About an hour or two later I was downstairs doing laundry and I went upstairs to check on her and she was fast asleep on my bedroom floor...still naked. I searched everywhere for a camera, but I couldn't find one anywhere. That would've came in handy in the future when she started acting up. She woke up from her nap a little cranky and all through dinner she was just whining. She was standing up to eat and spilled her drink all over herself, the chair and the floor and you would've thought that the world was coming to an end. Once we got that cleaned up and her settled down a little bit she stood up again on her chair and looked right at me and Allen and started peeing all over the place...what the heck? So, I cleaned that up and Allen threw her in the tub and then came back to help me. We looked at each other and started laughing. What an entertaining dinner that was. Her birthday is coming up and it will be so nice to have her trained by then.