Mad Mommy Skillz

I don't normally do two posts in such quick succession, but I NOW KNOW that I DO breed cooperative, super fast learners! And I MUST have skills! Yes, I will be taking the credit for this.

I woke up to find L naked again, but no pee in the bed. I took her to the potty and she went pee immediately. A while later, before I left to take L to a sitter (with potty seat in tow) and G to a movie, she went again!

But then, a glitch in our plans:

Car makes clunking noises. I assume someone has thrown a toy that has been lost somewhere in the engine.

Yell for husband, who is trying to WORK downstairs. Husband clueless. He is a CIVIL engineer, not a MECHANICAL engineer.

Call old flame from the past, B, who happens to work at an automotive repair shop. He is near our neighborhood, so he comes by and diagnoses car with a broken water pump, among other things. He calls shop, they will get it in ASAP.

Race to repair shop with kids in tow. L needs to pee. Put her on potty seat, which is in the back of the Durango. She has peeing stage fright and will not go.

Husband takes us back home. On the way, L announces "Pee pee!" Pull over, pull out the potty seat (see, it's HANDY!) in the back of a gas station parking lot. I sit on the asphalt next to her and say, "You can do it! Make the pee go in the potty! SSSSS, SSSSS" and pray no one can see or hear the crazy woman sitting on the ground next to a baby on a portable potty. But alas, more stage fright. Husband says, "She's going to be like that kid in American Pie that can only poop at home, isn't she?"

We finally make it back home, where L promptly pees on the potty for the THIRD TIME in one day! And she's high on chocolate eggs! But I don't care!

And now I have written it all down, which is bad Mommy Karma.

But isn't she cute?!?

The neighbors love us. LOVE US.