The challenge has begun...

So the great adventures of potty training have begun in the Welker household...5 days to be exact. I decided it was time to start the adventure when Lily took off her pants for two days straight whenever she had to use the bathroom. She has in the past (prior to the official start) successfully used the "big girl potty" a number of times, but hasn't since we officially started. The biggest thing I have learned about potty training: is consumes you because its time consuming and you have to be obsessive about it. When reviewing the things that come out of my mouth the past few days, it causes me to chuckle. "Release the pee", for example. But, there have been some progress in the adventure: She loves her "pull-ups", doesn't mind sitting on the potty, and I think she wants to learn how to use the potty. In an effort to spur her on, we made a picture for the potty and I made a potty progress chart. (Both of which are hung with pride in our bathroom.) Another thing Lily has grown to love over the past few days is toilet paper, that's right TP. She is so excited to use it that she has filled her whole potty seat with it. And she insists in helping momma in getting the TP when needed. Maybe this is where the need for women to go to the bathroom in pairs began?