Potty Training

I have no idea what happened, but last Friday Mimi just decided to be potty trained. We went from sometimes she will go bathroom if we happen to have a chance to put her on the toilet, too her telling us when she pee or poops beforehand and we will put her on and she does her business. It is very strange, it’s like she just decide it is time. So ever since Friday, she has done business #2 in the toilet and also most of #1. So now during the day we put her in training underwear instead of diapers. At night we still use diapers and also whenever we take Mimi out of the house.


The are still times when she pees and it’s too late and it ends up on the floor. Usually that happens if she is preoccupied watching TV. She will be so into what she is watching that she will forget to tell us if she needs to go until it is too late. But that only happens like once a day, most of the time she is quite good at telling us.

So my theory on the sudden potty training is it is because Mimi likes to flush the toilet. A couple days before Friday she insisted on her flushing the toilet after Annie and I (yes I know it is a bit gross!). Mimi will flush the toilet and say ‘Niao Niao Bye Bye’ which means ‘pee bye bye’ in Chinese. Then all of the sudden on Friday she started going to the bathroom and getting to flush the toilet for herself. It’s too much of a coincidence. Whatever the reason, I am just glad toilet training is happening because now I can save a lot more money!