Charge of the Potty Brigade

As a mom you come to realize if it's not nailed down or bolted to the wall....it can be flushed! That's what my three year old and his little sister has taught me during this whole potty training phase. It is nice when they can go to the bathroom by themselves but it is not safe to presume that they can handle everything by themselves.

Tonight my toddler proved that is just the case. Steve, my husband, went to go check on Mason when we couldn't hear any noises coming from his room which only means one thing, something is about to go terribly wrong. Mason took it upon himself to go alone to the bathroom without notifying anyone. He's being a big boy right? Normally I like to keep the toilet paper out of reach when he is in the bathroom because it usually ends up all over the floor, but tonight, tonight was different. Instead of mounds and mounds of toilet paper on the floor, it was in the toilet. Needless to say I let Steve handle this one on his own!

But as I said this is not the only incident. One morning I had taken Mason to the bathroom and was trying to keep his younger sister out. So we left (toilet paper out of reach at this point) to give him so privacy...only she had sneaked back into the bathroom (or at least tried). I heard the door opening and when I went to retrieve her I had to retrieve more than I bargained for...at the bottom of the toilet sat the pink toy phone she had been carrying that morning, and if I could have flushed it I would for that wasn't the only thing in the potty.

The last incident that really takes the cake was when I had taken Mason to the bathroom and he didn't want to leave the potty so I thought okay he's not done. So I leave to tend to Chloe when I hear a lot of flushing going on. Great he's playing with the toilet again I thought (he does like to flush a lot) so I go back to get on to him. I walk in to find him standing in the toilet flushing himself! It's bad enough that you catch them sometimes playing in the potty but actually standing in it! Ugh.