My Pee Pees Are Talking to Me

We are, I believe, finally turning a corner on the potty training trail. At one point in the journey Anna was holding back her pee. I told her that the pee pees were talking to her and telling her that they wanted to come out. I asked her if she could feel it when they wanted to come out. I told her that she would get owies if she didn't let them out. As a result of this narrative, this is now the language that she uses when she needs to use the facilities. She says, "Mom, the pee pees are talking to me!" She enjoys adding to the narrative, "Mom, they're saying, 'Anna let us out!' they're screaming, Mommy." I'm sure she is going to say this to her Primary teacher and when she starts pre-school in the fall. I'm just so excited that she is starting to tell me ahead of time. I did have to specify that the pee pees do not like to come out on the floor, or couch, etc. They are specifically requesting the potty, because that (along with their close friends, poop) is where they like to live.

She has been so funny lately. Today she was playing Princess with me. She was the Princess all morning (I am always the Prince). We had set up a bed on the floor of the slide room for Laurie and Todd, who weren't able to come. She called to me from her slide room and said, "Mom, you say, 'where is my Princess?' then you come and kiss me on the lips." This was a new one, so I went to investigate. She had laid herself out on the bed a lá Snow White/Sleeping Beauty including a pretty little blanket drawn over herself up to the armpits. I asked her why I needed to kiss her. She looked at me like I was as dumb as a rock and said, "Mom, that is how you wake up a Princess!" She is a little too indoctrinated in the Princess myth. She told me the other day that you go to the ball, meet the Prince, get married and live happily ever after. I tried to tell her that you can be happy even if it doesn't work out that way. She told me, "that's when you are sad mom, when you lost your Prince." Heaven help us!

Good Night,
~C

P.S. the answer to the previous post's title, is Delta Dawn