On Labor Day weekend my wife and I finally decided to bite the bullet and start potty training Hailey. Between our schedules, we would have four days at home and we could give the time and attention it required to do such a task. So while most of you were sunning in the sand, or moving through the mountains, I spent four days cleaning pee pee and poo poo — mostly just out of her little girl potty. By in large it worked, and Hailey is now mostly potty trained.
The most delightful moment of the weekend was actually last Saturday. We worked out a reward system for Hailey to encourage her to “put pee pee and poo poo in the potty.” The grand prize was a trip to the Disney Store to pick out her very own princess. So last Saturday, we went.
It was her first time to such a store… and she had barely walked in before she thought she was in eternal glory! She walked up to the first display of princess dolls (almost before we could get her out of her stroller), picked up her first princess turned towards Tiff and I and proudly and assuredly said, “mine!” From there it was from one display to another, grasping, gazing, pleading, desiring, almost everything she could touch. Before long I was looking at my wife saying, “we’ve got to get out of here!”
She walked away with a queens bounty – an Aura princess doll, a princess collection, Tinker Bell shoes, and a notepad. Sigh… Pictures are below.
Bless,
Jeremy
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those pictures are too cute! i can’t imagine when eliya gets that age – currently, when we go into the toy aisle, she makes all kinds of noises, shrieking longingly after every toy she sees. if i pick one up, she gets so excited, and then disappointed when i put it down. it tears david apart – he wants to buy them ALL for her, even though she has the same reaction for each and for anything bright colored she sees in the store.
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daddies and their daughters…
) at least you didn’t buy her the whole store.
congrats on the potty training, by the way. i’m considering starting eliya early – now that she’s eating food, i’m not sure i can handle the diapers. ew!
There’s no turning back now. The Disney princess paraphernalia is (seemingly) neverending. Ava is 5 and still crazy about them.