Potty Time....?

So yesterday, to my complete and utter surprise was our first day of potty training with the girls. I wasn't planning on doing it...really. It just sort of happened. Yesterday morning when the girls got up, I fed them breakfast and then put them in the bathtub. While they were in the tub, I decided to take advantage of the time while they're entertained and somewhat confined and re-arrange my living room. We've lived in our house for a year now and I've never been totally happy with the arrangement. But that's a blog for another day. At any rate, when the girls were done in the tub, I was still working so I didn't want to stop and put diapers on them. Plus, whenever they have on only diapers, they come off in 2.5 seconds anyway, so it's kind of worthless.

At any rate, after being naked for a while they started whining about needing to go potty or poop or whichever. So I talked to them about going in their potty chairs. We got out the chairs for them to play with. I totally though that this was as far as we were going to get..we've been here before, I've just never pushed. And I didn't really today either. Further along in the morning, Kynden started to go on the floor. I grabbed her up and brought her over to her chair. She sat there for a little bit and then put a tiny bit in her chair. At first she acted like she was scared or like she did something wrong. But I clapped and cheered and gave hugs and rewarded her with an m&m. After seeing that, Ellyanna wanted to do it too. So without much more effort than that, Ellyanna just went! 2 or 3 times all on her own initiative! And she even pooped! I about fell over! By the end of the morning, all the girls had gone in their chairs and were so proud of themselves. I bought them some big girl underwear yesterday..so we'll work on that today. I can't really let myself believe that it's really going to be this easy. I had so much trouble with the boys! I don't want to get my hopes up...but really...can it be this easy?

Oh, and just in case anyone is wondering, I did get my living room arranged. And I think I like it. I'll leave it for a few days and then move a couple things around on the walls if I decide to keep it.