Violet is potty trained! It's bittersweet. I mean, it's another skill to parade she's no longer a baby and more and more a little girl. Our little girl. It's great because an extra $12 a week usually spent on nappies can go towards something else , and I've quite enjoyed making pretty pantie purchases. We did have a funny "Mickey Mouse" experience the other night however:
Cristian and I have started running together on the weekends, it was decided he needed legitimate running shoes to aid with shin splits and benefit poor arches. I shopped around in the market while he took Violet over the way to try on shoes and have his feet analyzed. I didn't have my phone so I missed about 4 frantic phone calls from Cristian because Violet had to go "potty" and he didn't know what to do. A lady in the store noticed his predicament, and Violet squirming around crossing her legs and pointed out the direction of the restrooms. He ran all the way to the very back of the store and into the men's room only to find no stall was available. I wandered casually into the shop when I see him sprinting like a mad man back up to the front of the store, holding Violet out in front of him like she was some kind of ticking bomb, yelling desperately about how "She needs to go potty but there's no stalls available in the men's room! Come on! Run! You have to take her!". This caused a lot of stares as we both sprinted to the back of the store..... again; Cristian very distraught and me laughing hysterically about the whole situation.
Violet was very good to hold it till I could get her on that toilet. When we came out we had a lot of spectators who wanted to know if we'd made it in time while we ran her back and forth across the store. She also received many applause and shouts of "Good job!" and "What a big girl you are!" and "Hurray!". I think Cristian even managed to get a few of those himself. He's the best.
Hilarious.
Totally hilarious.
As a side note we did manage to purchase Cristian some new runners and our last time out for a couple miles his arches thanked him and his shin splits all but disappeared.
Running together is something I have really enjoyed. Sure he's a sprinter and I'm a distance runner so he usually beats me on our trails, but it's refreshing to do something active, outdoors, and with just us a couple of times a week. We're working really hard on being a lot more healthy, and now with the weather slowly but surely improving we are LOVING being outside in this hit and miss sunshine.
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