Once upon a squaty potty

We were invited to a different church this morning. This is the church our babysitter and our neighbors go to. It was such a great church, very welcoming, full of great people. We felt right at home there, and no one seemed to mind our 4 loud children which is a huge bonus.

Just one small thing that made it a bit of a challenge...


This is a squaty potty, and this was there only option for a bathroom! (This is not their actual potty, I thought it would be rude to take a picture of theirs....but it looks pretty close to this!) My toilet using children were not to excited about this. Well I take that back, one of my children were so happy...Timothy. He saw and said with so much excitement... "Mama, it's a squaty potty!!" A back story on this, is that there was one of these where we were living in Virgina, so people could practice and for those people going someplace where this was all there was they could get used to it. Well I thought no need for us to use it and Timothy was still in diapers while we were in Virgina so he never got to try it. So that is why he was so happy today!

Parker and Lizzie were not having it! Parker finally went and then Angela took Lizzie, and then brought her back to me and tried to explain that Lizzie would not go. I was kinda surprised by this because we went to a village church on Saturday and Lizzie used this potty with no complaints.....


This was taken after a successful trip to the potty in which Lizzie and I were both inside that little building behind us...it was a tight fit! Anyway, back to today and the squaty potty. Lizzie straight refused to go and she held it for the next 30 or 4o minutes...bless her heart! I think this is something that is going to take more time before she won't mind using it. And just for the record, in case anyone wants to know...I used it, and had no problems!