{"id":562,"date":"2007-09-27T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T21:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/27\/potty-power\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T21:58:02","slug":"potty-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Potty Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whaaat&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, hey! Good to see you here&#8230;you just caught me daydreaming about how wonderous it will be when I do not have to buy any sort of diaper, pull-up, or pee\/poop containment apparel.<\/p>\n<p>The day is so close, I can almost taste it.<\/p>\n<p>After a pretty successful potty day (while out running errands, no less!) yesterday, and a couple viewings of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Potty-Power-Boys-Girls\/dp\/B0002B55DO\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-8032737-0118450?ie=UTF8&amp;s=dvd&amp;qid=1190927667&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Potty Power! <\/a>(thanks so much, Amy!), little A. decided that we needed to wear big girl underwear this morning.<\/p>\n<p>And at time of posting, we still have the same underwear on, dry underwear, coinciding with five or six successful visits to the potty. (We are talking 7+ hours here, people!)<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those milestones which I will <em>not<\/em> be writing tearful goodbyes about. But I am just a little bit leery, I mean it really is going to be this easy with her? <em><strong>Really<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe God figured I had enough trauma with the months and months of &#8220;training&#8221; with Emma and I deserve a painless, quick experience this time around. Or maybe the DVD does have some sort of subliminal messaging that really gets into their little brains. Or maybe just having a big sister like Emma, who happens to be the biggest cheerleader ever, is the catalyst to becoming a &#8220;big girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, I am waiting with bated breath while knocking on wood, keeping my fingers crossed, and employing any other superstition or trick I can, just hoping that we are on our way to having two little &#8220;big&#8221; girls.<\/p>\n<p>I have the cutest, proudest photo of A. wearing her new undies this morning for the first time, but I am very apprehensive to post it. It makes me very mad that I have to feel this way &#8211; but I will send it out to family and friends via email. If you really want to see it, leave a comment or send me a mail and I&#8217;ll send it along.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll leave you with this photo of A. as she is yelling &#8220;Potty Power!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/potty.jpg\" title=\"potty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/potty.jpg\" title=\"potty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/potty.jpg\" alt=\"potty.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just because my blog has been turning a bit into a photo-blog as of late, I&#8217;ll throw in one more of Addie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/ad_bear-copy.jpg\" title=\"ad_bear-copy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/ad_bear-copy.jpg\" title=\"ad_bear-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/ad_bear-copy.jpg\" alt=\"ad_bear-copy.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All eyes on the prize&#8230;also note, a new princess gown in the rotation. I almost prefer the <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.wordpress.com\/2007\/09\/20\/can-you-spot-the-trend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cinderelly <\/a>skirt, though. It was less trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whaaat&#8217;s that? Oh, hey! Good to see you here&#8230;you just caught me daydreaming about how wonderous it will be when I do not have to buy any sort of diaper, pull-up, or pee\/poop containment apparel. The day is so close, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addison","category-potty-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/psMOS-94","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}