{"id":4682,"date":"2009-10-18T21:49:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2009-10-18T21:49:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T02:49:51","slug":"elimination-emulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/2009\/elimination-emulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Elimination emulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life has been full here at the Boyd house, but there’s been a surprising development in our bathroom. <\/p>\n

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Especially in the last month or two, Rosie has been imitating Lucy in every way possible — making silly faces, dancing along with her, wearing her shoes, hollering at the same time. You get the idea. And now, this emulation is spilling over into elimination.<\/p>\n

Until a few weeks ago, Rosie hadn’t been very interested in the pre-bath potty practice we were offering. But recently, she became fascinated by the whole process. “Pee! Pee!” we hear from the little sis every time Lucy goes to the bathroom. Rosie will often plop herself on the potty, diaper and pants and all, and resist standing up again for quite awhile. Often it will just take a little encouragement and a naked butt for Rosie to produce a pee in the potty — and cheers from all members of the family!<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I decided to experiment with Rosie’s typical elimination pattern and put Rosie on the potty during her usual post-breakfast pooping time. And yes, she pooped! Twice on the potty that day, actually. We were bad impressed.<\/p>\n

Rosie seems very pleased with her newfound potty skills, and we are cheering her on. I was intentionally not planning any kind of “potty training weekend”:\/news\/2008\/potty-training-weekend\/ until warmer weather rolls around, but if Rosie is self-motivated enough to develop her bathroom independence on her own, I’m all for that. In the meantime, I’m trying to figure out the logistics of two potty-users in a one-bathroom house, and we’re resigned to taking a little pee on the floor with a grain of salt. But it is hard not to start dreaming about what to do with that diaper money we’re going to save!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life has been full here at the Boyd house, but there’s been a surprising development in our bathroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boydsnest.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}