Dress up and potty news

Like most almost-three-year-olds, Teresa loves to dress up. We've gotten to the point where she fights me every time I try to get her to wear pants. I can usually convince her to wear some when we leave the house but only with the promise that she can take them off as soon as we get home. And then the whole time we are out she says stuff like "we will go home and I will take off my pants" and "guys, I'm pretty sure when we get home I'm gonna take my pants off". She even complains about wearing leggings under her skirts, little rascal. I'll be glad when spring is here so I won't have to insist on the pants wearing all the time.

This Sleeping Beauty dress was supposed to be for her birthday, but I was really excited when it got here, so I gave it to her early. Now you know why Marc has banned me from doing any more birthday shopping until closer to May.

It's way too long, but she is in love with it.

Marc's mom sent the girls some cute dresses, and T's came with a matching one for her doll. She was thrilled! She had to wear it right away, and lots of days since. The one nice thing (and I really do mean the ONLY nice thing) about having church so late this year is that now we have time for photo shoots before church when the girls are all dressed up. These pictures were taken the day before Nora's birthday

Modeling is hard work sometimes...

Nora gets really excited about dresses, too, more than T did at her age, I think her big sister is rubbing off on her!

I'm in love with this one!

And here's T in her brand-spankin'-new Belle dress that she earned by finally going poo on the potty all by herself.

This was the big bribe for quite awhile, she would repeat daily "Teresa will go poo on the potty and then she will get a Belle dress!", and yesterday she finally did it. And now she is a pooping pro, I'm so proud of her.

Monday morning she just woke up ready to be done with diapers, the first thing she asked to do was pee on the potty and she has been doing awesome since. I guess we really did just have to do things on her time table. I do think that all the encouraging and begging and making her sit on the potty leading up to her decision helped her get ready for it. But once she decided to do it, she has really committed. She's only had one tiny accident in the past three days, and even when I've put a diaper on her to go out or at bedtime she has stayed dry and waited until she can use a bathroom.

Tonight when we went to get her dress was the first time (besides a small trip to the park) that she wasn't in a diaper away from home. In the car I reminded her that big girls don't pee in their panties, and she said "I know, I will only go pee pee in the potty and not in my panties".

I told her the other day that I was really proud of her, and that she was so awesome for using the potty and she said "wow, that is really nice of you to say that!".