also in big girl news....

Lots of growing up has been going on around here in the last 24 hours.

First the big girl bed.

Then, as we were getting ready for a bath last night, she decided to get herself undressed for the first time all by herself. It took awhile, and she almost asked for help, but she perservered and did it. I showed her her hamper and she put her clothes in it all by herself.

We went into the bathroom and I handed her her toothbrush. All of a sudden, without any prompting or reminders from me, she lifted up the lid of her potty seat, sat down, and went! That's the first time she's ever gone completely on her own without Daddy or me telling her to sit on the potty. She must've actually realized that she needed to go! Amazing! We've been potty training pretty seriously all week this week, with little progress, except when she happens to be on the potty at the right time because we've told her to try (I've been setting the timer for 20 minutes all day when we're home and she's been really good about sitting down for a few minutes every time she hears the timer, and sometimes we catch it at the right time). She's also been dry for long stretches of time, which is progress.

And the most amazing thing about the potty story took place just before that. Right before we had gone upstairs to take a bath, we had been downstairs cleaning up her toys. She was sitting on the floor cleaning up some beads. She was muttering kind of under her breath, "I no pee pee on the floor. I no pee pee on the floor." I figured out what she was saying and asked, "Do you need to pee pee?" She said no, she didn't. I didn't think much else about it, but after she did use the potty upstairs I thought, maybe she had actually known she had to go while she was downstairs cleaning up and managed to talk herself out of having an accident?!

Progress, eh? (Hope I didn't just jinx it by writing that!) Maybe things are finally starting to click in that little mind of hers.