The Potty Saga!

All you moms who told me girls were easier to potty train than boys are fabulists! My little girl is much to stubborn and independent minded--no idea where that comes from, by the way--to reason with about the potty. Let's be clear, she loves to sit on her potty, she loves to wear panties, she loves to tell me to "wipe my butt"---but, it is ALL pretend. Well, the part that is not pretend goes like this--she pulls her pants down, takes her diaper off, sits on the potty for about 30 secs and then proclaims "I go potty, I done going potty". At that point she saunters to her room and looks for panties. We usually come to terms that the panties can go over her diaper. However, there is the occasion that she is left in panties only with the hope that the she would find the wet feeling undesirable--WRONG! She could care less...as a matter of fact, she doesn't even stop when she is going to pee she keeps walking and leaves a stream on the carpet from her starting point to her end point, why can't she just pee in a puddle in one spot! Most recently, L went to the potty, removing her diaper, then went to her room and put panties on followed by her pants, socks, and shoes--all unknown to me. I found out about 2 hrs later when I went to check her for a possible diaper change--there was no diaper, only panties. Those panties were soiled with both numbers 1 and 2--she was completely unbothered. I am hoping there will be a part 2 to this soon. In this part 2 I hope to express my elation overs L's success with actually using the potty and officially retiring the diaper.