A Banner Day in the Isaacson Household

Okay, some of this may be TMI (too much information) for some of you. But we believe (knock on wood) that Ella is finally potty-trained!!! We just got fed up last week and told Ella when her current pull-ups were gone, we weren't going to buy any more. We have been trying to potty train her for a year and a half. In January I thought maybe we were close. I think I posted that I bought the Little Mermaid vanity as a reward/bribe for her. She earned stickers each time she would go potty on the toilet. When she finished the chart, she could have the vanity. Well, that was not enough incentive for her. I guess she didn't want the vanity THAT much. It sat in her closet for months. Every now and then we would get to add a sticker.

Well, she took the news of no more pull-ups pretty well. And was actually excited about wearing big girl underwear. On our trip to Target this week, she went over to the underwear all by herself and picked some out. She used her Dora seat (yes, I've been carrying it around everywhere we go) at the grocery store, TGIFriday's and a pancake restaurant we went to.

All this time she would only go #1 on the potty, but #2 was another issue. Then, last night after we tucked her into bed, she got up to use the bathroom and then excitedly called for me. She had to show me her "accomplishment." She had gone #2 in the toilet!! Finally, she is offically potty trained! We used the last pull-up yesterday. She's been rationing them, about one a day for a week.

And this morning Ella got to play with her Little Mermaid vanity for the first time!!! We are all extremely thrilled with this particular milestone! Here she is in all her Little Mermaid glory!