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We just got back Sunday from an awesome little vacation to Angel Fire, NM with me, my hubby, and our four year old daughter. We left our 18 month old son with the grandparents, because I didn’t think he’d really enjoy being up to at least his waist in snow and 7 degree weather.
Prior to going, I did what all moms do before any vacation involving kids. I panicked.
See, I knew we were going to be in the middle of nowhere for quite a while on our trip, with no usable restrooms in sight, and that’s enough to send any parent of a 3-5 year old into conniptions.
OXO Tot 2-in-1 Go Potty for Travel – Pink
Genius right? The kid needs to go? You just pull over, slap a bag in it, and off you go! Boom.
One little problem though. My daughter is obsessed with toilets. She dreams to one day use a porta-potty. She gets in trouble at school for asking to go too many times in an hour. She doesn’t have a medical problem, believe me, we’ve checked.
So the potty arrives in that glorious 2 day shipping window, and I took it out of the box and promptly left it on the table to I’d remember to pack it.
Enter 4-year old…..
Her – “Mommy…. what’s that?”
Me – “Um, it’s a travel toilet. See, where we’re going we may not be able to get to a toilet in time so this is for EMERGENCIES ONLY”
Her – “OH, ok!
Also her, at gymnastics the next day… “HEY Y’ALL, I got a new POTTY! It’s AMAZING!!!”
*facepalm*
So we start off on part 1 of our split-in-half 10+ hour drive…..
Minute 15: “Mommy, I need to go potty”
Minute 38: “Mommy, I need to go potty”
Every 20-35 minutes for the rest of the drive, both parts, both days…. “Mommy, I need to go potty!!!”
*sigh* I didn’t need my hubby to tell me “Well, you shouldn’t have told her what that was” because I knew it already – but seriously, she’s not stupid, she knows what a potty looks like. What else am I supposed to tell her it is?
I’m happy to say…. I won. We didn’t use the potty once, though there were a few times I got a little nervous and was prepping myself to hop into the back seat of the mini-van and dust that thing off. Our friends, however, may never travel with us again because out 10+ hour car trip turned into more like 13+ with all the potty breaks. I AM happy, however, to have that as a backup in the car, because you KNOW there are some questionable places where your kid announces they need to go RIGHT NOW.
*sigh*……. Parenthood. Isn’t it grand?