We have been ECing our 11 month old daughter since she was 10 weeks and things have been very eventful since she started crawling and even more interesting since she started walking.
I have stuck to my intention to be braver about wearing trainer pants outside the house and bare bum or real pants in the house.
Catches wise we have good and bad days. I get the timing right a lot of the time but not also the heart and mind of little missy. Recently she has started to object to the potty or toilet offered and literally crouching down next to it a moment later to wee...I clean it up and tell her that it belongs in the potty.....she giggles ;)
You have got to love her vibrancy and self control. She is a real little person and knows when and where she will eat, sleep and eliminate, with definite ideas and preferences.
This evening DD ended up eating her tea naked, as she walked off the potty on her last potty session and hence didn't get her pants put back on and DH took her clean dress off to prevent her tea from being smeared all over it. When she had finished her tea and shouted to be let free, I unclipped her and sat her on the floor next to her chair and returned to my own tea.
There was an empty china bowl next to her chair from which she had been served her food onto her tray. DD looked at the empty bowl, walked over top it, carefully squatted over the bowl, balanced for a moment and wee'd in it !!!
I don't know whether to celebrate or be horrified ;)
I am so chuffed she has the physical and mental skills to wee when she wants and even more pleased that she choose a bowl rather than the floor. But why use her food bowl when she could see two potties within easy reach of her ? Or her more common response to needing a wee, which is walking to the bottom of the stairs and rattling the baby gate until I take the hint and carry her upstairs to the big toilet ?
What makes this more interesting is that not 10 minutes earlier DH and I were talking about DD (in front of her) and I mentioned that I would try and have more bare bum time and encourage her to use the potty herself...never did I think she would do it so soon, at just over 11 months old.
I know this is properly a one hit wonder and she won't do it again for months but I am amazed at her development