She's a Big girl Now!

It's official Presley has potty trained herself. She is 23 months old right now and I'm shocked how easy it came about. There are probably a lot of parents out there that might frown to know how easy it was for me. The reason it was easy was because I didn't have to do anything. On April 28,2010 she woke up in the morning and asked to have her diaper taken off. I usually let her run around the house diaper less because we have hardwood floors and clean up wasn't a big deal. She came into my room and told me "mommy poopy!" and I thought she just went on the ground. As I walked over to clean up the mess, I felt her bottom and she was completely dry. She kept repeating "mommy poopy!!" I finally realized that she was telling me she needed to GO! I grabbed her potty from the storage room and told her to sit and go potty. She hesitated at first but then when I showed her a jelly bean and told her if she went poopy in the potty that I would give it to her. She sat down and did her business (and of course enjoyed her jelly bean after).
I thought this was just a one time deal, and that she wasn't serious about being a big girl and going to the bathroom alone, until we were getting ready to run errands and I went to put a diaper on her. The moment she saw the diaper she ran and said "no mommy, not baby!" she pointed to her dresser where she knew she had some little cotton undies and wanted to put those on (Thanks to Mimi and auntie Jeniece for buying those monkey ones for her). I nervously put them on her and left to run errands. I for sure thought she was going to be peeing and pooping everywhere we went because she was only used to her little potty and not the big toilet. As we ran errands she came to me letting me know she needed to go, so I took her into the restrooms and she sat on the big toilet while holding onto me and would again do her business! I was shocked in disbelief by all of this. This girl wanted nothing to do with a toilet a week ago and today she was acting like she has been doing it forever. Presley is officially pooping & peeing in her toilet all on her own. I don't have to remind her to go, she just does. Thank you Presley for making mommy's job a little easier by being such a big girl and going potty before your little sister Kinley gets here! Now, next step learning to wipe yourself...to be continued;)