Post-Potty Ponderings

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This post will contain graphic information about my 2 year old's potty experience! If you are not a proud Grandma/Nana or relative, feel free to enjoy the cute picture above and skip the actual story!

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Gisèle was a big girl today! She told us that she needed to go to the potty (before going!), and let me pull down her pants and pull-ups without squirming. After sitting on the potty for 6-7 minutes, singing Row, Row, Row Your Boat a few times and reading a book v-e-r-y slowly, she got her silent-grunt face on, and went poo-poo. She and I were both thrilled! She pointed to the result of her efforts and proudly exclaimed (repeatedly) "I poo-poo, Mama, I poo-poo!!" She then proceeded to poo-poo again, and follow it up with a pee-pee. It was a very exciting potty time. :) It was then that I was faced with a problem: Prior to tonight, she had only pee-peed in her little potty. The one time she had poo-pooed, it was while sitting on her little potty seat on top of the normal toilet. What to do now that there was poo-poo in her little plastic potty?

I grabbed the box of (non-flushable) wipes nearby and let her use the first one to wipe herself. She did so, and then - before I could say anything - tossed it on top of the pile of poop in her potty. I sighed and used a couple more to finish wiping her, and tossed them on top as well. She turned around so I could pull up her pull-up and pants, and then it happened - she reached over and pushed one of the dirty wipes further into the poo-poo. "Gisèle!", I exclaimed, "We don't touch poo-poo! It's dirty!" She fired right back with "I not touch the poo-poo, Mama - I touch the wipes!" I tried not to laugh, got her down to bed, and then Jamie and I sat down to discuss the clean-up situation.

I contended that I had dealt with the potty time and child clean-up; therefore, it was Jamie's turn for cleanup of the actual potty receptacle. He had no qualms, but thought that we should compromise - I should throw away the used wipes and dump the poo-poo in the toilet; he would clean out the little potty. (I had to take him to see the potty site before he would understand why I was reluctant to touch the wipes to throw them away.) After all was said and done, the wipes and poo-poo have been taken care of; Jamie will do the rest when I'm done with this post.

Out of curiosity, how DO you take care of #2 in a little plastic potty? Should I line the middle insert with trash bags?? There has to be an easier (more sanitary!) way to take care of this!