It's official: T is not ready to potty train. She loves to take her diaper off, so I thought we'd give it a try. She has good bladder control, but doesn't have the faintest idea what it means to go pee pee on the toilet. She loves to sit on the toilet, and sit and sit and sit, and then flush and flush and flush. It's just the peeing part she doesn't get. More than once, she has sat on the toilet and done nothing and then peed on the floor while washing her hands. I thought maybe the running water was the trick, but turning the tap on while she sits on the toilet doesn't seem to help. But I could deal with all of that. It was the pile of poop on the bath mat that made me decide to wait a month or two and try again. The other day, she was wearing her panties and playing upstairs with the big kids. The next thing I know, the girls are freaking out and telling me that T pooped on the floor. I pictured horrible smears of poop everywhere, but fortunately, it was all in one place, as if she just figured that the bath mat was a better place to poop than the toilet. Great. I figure I lucked out this time, and I'm quitting while I'm ahead--or at least not too far behind. Hopefully, she'll be more ready in a few weeks, in the meantime, I'll keep buying diapers.

The other night the twins went to bed really early because they hadn't had a nap. When I went to get ready for bed, T woke up, but I figured that if I laid down with her, she'd go right back to sleep. So I hurried to brush my teeth and get into bed. She was quiet cuddling with me, so I figured she was going back to sleep. Pretty soon, I zonked out. Meanwhile, N was up late working in the computer room. T did not go back to sleep. Instead she decided that since there were still lights on, she should be able to get up, so she went into the bathroom, took off her pajamas and diaper and tried to go potty. No pee ended up in the potty, but apparently she managed to pee all over the floor. When N found her, she was sitting on the counter getting soap all over herself (she loves soap). Thankfully, she didn't fall or anything, but the mental image of her sitting naked on the counter after peeing on the floor when she was supposed to be sleeping was just so funny that I had to share. :)