Potty & Chores & Cake!

Apparently Lily wants to start potty training. I am not ready yet, but I doubt I will ever be ready -- I am dreading this. I like diapers. They are easy. But Lily's friends Emily and Ashley are potty training and so Lily wants to "go potty like Emily and Ashley." I know I should use this to my advantage, so while at Target last week I bought 2 toddler seats for the toilet. I like these better than the little toilets on the floor since I don't want to have to clean those and I see no reason why she can't use her stool to climb up on the toilet. We haven't officially started yet, but I am letting her play with the seats and get use to them. She has been sitting on them since last Thursday just "going potty" in the living room, or wherever. She carries them everywhere with her!

Here she is sitting on one and playing with the other (I bought 2 -- one for upstairs and one for downstairs). Silly girl!

I think she is going to miss playing with them once they go on the toilet!

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Yesterday Lily was my little helper as I unloaded the dishwasher. She'll get them all out and stack them on the counter for me. She is pretty good too -- she also takes the cups and bowls that have water pooled up in them and dumps the water in the sink first!

This is her latest obsession -- filling her own water bottles. Usually I give her bottled water (Chip is the only one who drinks from the fridge -- I am a water snob and the fridge water tastes funny to me. Seriously you can blindfold me and I can identify different brands of water).

She is getting better, but I still have to watch her and let her know when it is full. The first few times she dumped water on her head since she is too short to see when the cup is full!

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Tonight we will be celebrating Father's Day and my Mom's birthday (which is tomorrow). So Lily and I made Grandma a birthday cake. At first she was a little bummed that she didn't get to stir, but then she kinda found the mixer fascinating -- so it was ok.

She kept cheering the mixer on yelling, "go round and round and round . . ."

At the end she still wanted to stir a little! It is great for me since she did not want to taste the batter!! I am enjoying it while I can because I know soon enough we will be fighting over who gets to lick the beater! :)