Alternative Uses for Training Potty.

Yesterday I bought Sarah Beth her very own potty.  While she shows no desire whatsoever to use the "big girl" potty, we thought it was time to introduce the subject.  She knows what the potty is in theory, as Mommy has not been to the bathroom by herself in recent memory, but she couldn't care less about sitting around in an icky diaper all day long.  Diaper changes interrupt her play time and are an inconvenience for her.  When you ask her if she pooped, she will say, "No no!" quite convincingly.  Sometimes she'll blame it on her best friend. "Elmo pooped."  We explain that it's ok and everyone poops.  So once we get her up on the changing table to clean things up, she goes through the whole list of everyone she knows.  "Mommy poops, Daddy poops, Savannah poops, Moose poops...and so on."  Very funny but I'm sure she'll soon start telling the cashier at the grocery store how "Mommy poops" and I'll be mortified.

To accompany the training potty, I got her some pull-up diapers.  The pampers brand.  I was annoyed that the only kind you could get were "Dora" branded pull-ups.  We hate Dora.  I know most kids love it, but I can't stand any cartoon where the characters yell at you and then yell "Say it LOUDER!"  Ugh, shut up Dora. So SB doesn't really know who Dora is and we'd like to keep it that way.  Unfortunately she is taking over the world, it seems.  Kurt would like her deported.

So back to the potty.  She knows you sit on it and you pee in it, in theory anyway.  But in practice, she has found better uses for it.

Alternative Uses for Training Potty. 
Don't be grossed out, she hasn't actually used the potty yet for its true purpose.

1. Drum.  She is musically inclined and drums on anything so this is no surprise.
2. Storage for legos.
3. Bomb shelter for her playmobile people.
4. Step stool to reach chocolate chips on kitchen counter while Mommy isn't looking.
5. Hiding place for contraband.  (crayons, stolen chocolate chips (see #4), lotion or other personal product she snuck out of the bathroom drawer.)
6. "Thinking Chair" - Watch Blue's Clues if you don't know what this is.
7. Water bowl for the dogs.  Her idea, not mine.
8. Train.  Anything that she can push down the hallway becomes a train in her mind.
9. Receptacle for baby wipes.  She loves to break into her changing table drawer and steal the wipes.  today she pulled out every single wipe and stashed them all in the potty.
10. Sink.  She "washed" her tea set today.  She loves to clean.

Based on the above list, I believe Potty Training is far off in the distance, but I'm not worried.  She'll get it eventually.  In the meantime, I applaud her creativity.