Successful

I got up early today for a ride. Left around 5:30 am and took my time cause the pine smell was sooo nice from the rain yesterday, I loved it. Beautiful beautiful morning. The good news continued when Katharine had her first successful #2. Doing her party dance when we went to the store for ice cream - 

I had been watching her like a hawk since 1:45 yesterday - with my "poop watch" alarm going off for several hours. I set it after she had her accident around 2pm on the 4th (she's been pretty consistent). I snoozed it and it would go off again every 9 minutes, to remind me to keep an eye on her and make sure she didn't take off to seek privacy. I turned the alarm off after several hours and relieved myself of duty by putting a diaper on her before we headed out to watch fireworks. She didn't end up going at all yesterday, so my watch continued into today. I took her outside this morning, and a few times she'd say she had to go to the bathroom but then wasn't able to go #1, it was cause her body was telling her to do #2. I was keeping a close eye on her. Corey and I went back and forth about if we should go to Pineview to spend time with his family. I decided if I was going to go up, I wanted to go over to the church to update the RS board in the Relief Society room first, rather than do it later tonight or tomorrow morning. So I went over to do that, and Lily and Katharine came with me. So at the church, K stayed in the room with us for a bit and had fun drawing with the dry erase markers on the  whiteboard. Lily and I were talking and laughing at North Valley Group reels (I quite enjoy their shorts). Then K wanted to go into the nursery to play with toys. I let her. She came back and said she had to go to the bathroom. We went in, nothing. We came back in the RS room, Lily and I were laughing some more, and after a minute I noticed K was gone. "Where'd she go???!" She had not left the room. She was hiding under the upright piano, which had it's keyboard away from us, so it was a perfect hiding spot, if only I hadn't noticed she disappeared, but I did! I got you Katharine! We went in the bathroom and she sat on a BIG adult toilet and after being serenaded by Lily for a few minutes, she was able to relax and SHE DID IT!!!

Of course I sent messages and photos to Corey and all her siblings to let them know of this great victory!!! After I was done at the church, we drove straight to Smiths and picked up ice cream. She's very proud of herself, and she should be! 

She said she wanted pink ice cream. We walked past the abundance of frozen dessert choices and when she saw the cookies and cream, she changed her mind. I got Chocolate Cookie Crumble too, cause Joseph got me semi hooked on that flavor years ago. We were quick in the store and then K carried the ice cream to the car. Doing some flexing! 

Haha, yes, you are a tough and smart and strong girl! I also got some sushi for Lily and myself, cause Lily's trying to be healthy and wanted something to help her resist ice cream. Luckily I got two things of sushi, cause Katharine hijacked the california rolls. 

Lily and I still got a few pieces, and then we ate the dragon roll. And the sushi was gone within minutes. 

So much for saving some for Corey (sorry!). We hurried and took the containers to the outside garbage bin to hide the evidence from any passerby that we ate sushi without them. "You didn't see anything..." - haha. So that is the big news of the day! 18 days in (we started training on June 18) and we got our first #2 that was mostly in the toilet and not in her underwear. Good job K, you've come a long way. We're gonna get there!