A Grand Achievement!!

I'm too tired to put in a long post, but I do have a couple of things to note from this past week. Pictures will have to come later. The first is that I went to the doctor for my regular baby check up and everything is moving along just perfectly. All of the results from the ultrasound were perfect and the baby is measuring in the 50th Percentile. I have officially popped and have to choose daily between the pants that I can't button, or the elastic maternity waistband that is still a little too loose to stay up properly. My biggest concern was a harsh reprimand from my doctor over a significant weight gain in the last month, but she was unconcerned so as long as it doesn't continue at that pace...so am I.
The REALLY BIG news...is that Alicia used her potty for the first time. I had been trying to potty train her a couple of months ago, and decided she wasn't getting it, and I wasn't quite ready for the hassle. So, I just stopped trying. She has continued to assist me in my bathroom adventures and loves to hand me toilet paper and flush for me. Then, out of the blue the other night she threw a big fit and didn't want to put on a diaper. I said to her, "Alicia, you have to wear a diaper. When you go peepee and poopoo in the potty, you don't have to wear diapers anymore." Then she said, "peepee" and pointed at herself. So I suggested that she could go sit on the potty if she wanted, and she did...and we waited but nothing happened. So she got off and started to play with her hair clips and I left her in the bathroom playing for a minute. When I got back she had repositioned herself on her potty and was looking in wonder at the yellow liquid in the potty between her legs!! We are so proud of our big girl, and she was extremely proud of herself as well! Then she still didn't want to put on a diaper, so we told her that she didn't have to wear a diaper if she pooped in the potty, and she sat on it grunting, but had no success...it was a very exciting event for us!