Yep, I'm Being THAT Mom

In my every day life I don't usually have chats about my children's bathroom experiences... but we're all friends here right? Okay good! Before having a toddler I used to scoff a bit when parents would publicly talk about potty training, hello! That's private! Okay yes I still think not everyone needs to know the details of your toddler's bathroom trips, we moms (and dads!) need advice sometimes! So yes, I'm being THAT mom. 
When our daughter was about 15 months old we bought her one of those potty chairs. We were feeling very ambitious... well and maybe I was reading one too many stories about child prodigies who potty trained themselves at 9 months old and never looked back. Okay so maybe not 9 months, but seriously I felt like left and right I was reading about kids jumping on the potty train when they were the same age as my daughter and like every other good mom, I don't want my kids getting behind!

Yep, I'm being "That Mom" posting this kind of picture...

Yeah. My kid apparently wasn't a potty training prodigy.  Sure, she sat on it a time or two but that was about it, it ended up being an eyesore a decoration in our bathroom. Honestly though I didn't give it a second thought. She had other ideas as to what this new "toy" was I was fine with that.

Sorry for the cropped Instagram quality photo :)

Fast forward to just after her 2nd birthday and we decided to give it an actual shot. Having two in diapers just isn't all it's cracked up to be for me. She actually did really well right out of the gate and she is now practically 100% in big girl pants at home (aside from when she's sleeping)! Yay!! But we have an issue.
She has a phobia of public toilets. 
Even if we take her seat attachment she knows it's a trick, that there is a public toilet under it. She's on to us. It has nothing to do with the flush, it really is the actual seat (and like I said, even with her seat attachment that she uses perfectly fine at home).
We've taken her out a few times in public without a diaper but I'm honestly a bit scared to. She's stayed dry sometimes and not so much other times. I don't want her to start having accidents in the middle of Kroger and then have a regression but at the same time I feel like every time I throw a diaper on her to go out I am hindering her moving onto the step of being 100% potty trained even in public. 
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Thankful Thursday

Have you ever looked through and old family album from when you were a child and thought to yourself, gosh I'm glad this is the only place this picture is? I'm sure I have several of those types of pictures sitting around in the upstairs loft at my parent's house. 
Unfortunately for Norah with the internet and social media in full swing - hmm assuming the internet isn't just a fad of course ;) she will probably ask me several times throughout her life how I could have dared to put such and such picture online. You know... like this one...

So today I am thankful that Norah cannot yet express her embarrassment of me posting a picture of her first time on her new potty. Isn't she cute though?! Even if she is sitting on a potty chair, which is only a picture a parent can love. 
P.S. We decided to get her a potty because even though she is only 15 months and I realize she doesn't understand the concept yet I figure it can't hurt to get her used to it. I have this secret fantasy about getting her potty trained for the most part by the time she is in her early 2's that way I don't have two in diapers for very long. Am I nuts for thinking that could happen? Of course I am. Remind me to check back to this post in a year so I can laugh at myself :)

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