Traumatic Incident

Ellie's daily report from school kept saying 'tried' in the diaper section and I didn't really think much of it.  Who in their right mind would attempt to potty train 18 months - 2 year olds?  One day we had a report that came home that said "potty".  I asked her teacher about it and sure enough they take all the kids to sit on the potty twice a day for practice and Ellie will occasionally go.   How did I miss the memo that her classroom takes the kids potty?  Just for kicks I pulled out the training potty and set it in her bathroom for her to sit on.  Disclaimer, I am not even close to being ready for this.  I think diapers are easier to deal with and will happily pay the couple dollars a day that diapers cost.   Ellie was very smiley and happy to sit on the potty.  She's very good at saying potty and poo-poo.  She kept reaching down in the potty so I told her she was done and picked her up to take a bath.  Ellie burst into tears and was really upset.  Suddenly I realized she had gone poop and it was on her hands, on the floor and thankfully some had managed to stay in the potty.  Oh my goodness, my 19 month old is using the potty. The experience was a bit traumatic for us both so for now the potty has returned to the closet.