Poop Rules My World

Millie has now pooped in the (baby) potty three times.  This is huge!!  We have never been able to get her to poop in the potty.  I pretty much consider her potty trained when it comes to the pee pee part (at least during the daytime), but pooping has been a whole different story.  We tried bribing and charts and stickers and treats with no success.  So I put the question to a mom forum that I'm part of on Facebook and got a ton of great advice.  One suggestion was that sometimes kids like to poop on those baby training potties so that their feet can touch the floor and give them leverage.  Well....that hadn't occurred to me.  A few days ago, I brought in our "car potty" and decided that would be the poop potty.  AND IT'S WORKING!!!!  I've never been so relieved.  I've never felt such joy over poop.  Parenthood is crazy.

I broke out the reward chart once again and promised her a trip to Chuck E. Cheese if she filled up the first row (one X for each poop in the potty).  However, she has been doing such a good job and Olaf seemed so far away, we decided to do a mid-way Chuck E. trip.

It just so happened that Cayden was free to meet up for the celebratory trip!  Mills was thrilled.

Syd and Beck were less impressed. There was one point where Syd was standing on the skee ball runway, Beck was walking (yes, he's a closet walker!) around with one shoe, Cayden was missing, and Mills was playing some violent game with a gun....and I thought "this is just bananas".  Amanda and I were able to regain control quickly though and we headed back to the toddler section.  Phew.

A glimpse into the future...Mills driving Syd around.  I need a hug.

In a strange twist of fate, it just so happened that some other kid was having a poop problem at Chuck E. Cheese, and we ended up having to sidestep human feces on the floor for a good 5 minutes until a worker was alerted to the problem.  That place is disgusting.  Next time Millie gets a poop reward, we'll have to visit the ice cream shop or a special playground.  No more Chuck E. Cheese for awhile. But Millie and Cayden loved it, so I guess it was worth it. ;)  Yayyyy for Millie and pooping in the potty!