Mayhem and Magic: My Mother is Super Woman

Have I mentioned that my mother is Super Woman? With the lovely meals and the crafty projects and the clean floors?

Well, she has topped anything I thought was possible. She has Sparkle using the toilet.

Until now, when we asked Sparkle, "Would you like to go to the bathroom on the toilet?" he scrunched his eyebrows and cocked his head and replied, "Yet me sink... Not today, Mama. Maybe tomorrow I use a toilet, OK?"

Before we left for Hawaii I ran through all the kid care stuff with Mom and said, "Oh, yeah, and could you toilet train Sparkle while we're gone?" (Ha! Joking, you see.)

My mom got this look and said, "Ha, ha! Hmmmm..."

On the second day we were gone, Sparkle called to tell us he had pooped on the potty! And, to get to the point, by the time we came home Sparkle had been dry without accidents for three whole days. And he has been dry since.

There were little bags of M&Ms and Skittles on the counter when we got home.

"Oh, yes," my mom (Super Woman) said, sort of apologetically, "I did offer him two Skittles and two M&Ms for each day he stayed dry."

Whatever, Mom! Offer him brownies for supper if he'll use the toilet! Hurrah!

I'm telling you, she's Super Woman.