We went to Lydia’s second birthday party last Friday and as per usual, I brought Nora’s traveling potty with us. Some of the mothers were saying isn’t it a bit early for her to be potty trained and I told them that Nora’s doing really well at it… but I didn’t say that in my opinion I left it quite late to potty train… I would have loved to have done it earlier.

She was wearing her nappy, as I always put her nappy on when we go to people’s places in case of accidents, but lately she has been really good!

When we were driving to St Austell, her nappy was dry the whole way through the journey! She was car sick once, but her nappy was dry throughout. When we stopped at a service station for a spot of lunch, Jules suggested that I should change her nappy before we continue… but when I got to the baby changing room, I discovered that her nappy was dry and she weeweed straight away when I put her on the toilet… not even her potty (as it was in the car)!

We continued our journey and about five miles to Exeter service station, Nora told us she wanted a poopoo. I told her it’s fine we’ll get to the service station soon. As we approached the exit junction, I asked her again if she needed to poopoo and she answered firmly ‘Yes!’

So once we stopped I grabbed her wipes and a clean nappy and took her to the baby changing room. There was a kiddie toilet there and she pointed to it. I checked her nappy and it was clean, so I took it off, put her on the kiddie toilet, and she did her business! After I cleaned her up, she said ‘Wash hands’, how good is that?

Yesterday, for the first time, I took her to Nursery and she had no nappy on. When we got to the Nursery, I reminded her that she has no nappy on so if she needs to weewee or poopoo I asked her what should she do. She pointed to the changing room. As long as she acknowledges where she needs to go, I am happy. I still left some nappies at the Nursery though, for afternoon nap time.

This morning, after Nora had her morning milk, I told her it’s time to get ready for Nursery. I took off her nappy and it was dry! Off we went to her potty… and she weeweed!!

My little girl is growing up.