In training

Back in February, I wrote about how we made our first foray into potty-training. It was a short-lived and, needless to say, unsuccessful venture. Fast forward four-plus months and we have a much more "focused" and intelligent toddler to deal with, so we are on to round two of potty-training.

EM has said privately for a while now that this second round would begin in earnest after the vacation; and, true to her word, it has. In fact, last night Ellie pooped in the potty. It was completely by accident, of course, but I can clearly see where we have an opportunity to succeed this time around whereas our first experiment in potty-training was just that - an experiment.

So why am I more confident? One word: chocolate. Take tonight for example when EM informed me she was able to cut Ellie's fingernails without one bit of protest by offering our chocoholic-in-training a single M&M. Mind you, we aren't advocating bribery but sometimes you have to doo what you have to doo (doo).

-ED