That’s right, last night Anna decided to go sit on the potty, and for the first time it was not a false alarm. It seems that Anna passes all her milestones when Jennifer is out of the house–maybe if I send Jen away for a month, Anna will have graduated college when she gets back.

I was able to leverage the big event into getting Anna to lie down to sleep without the usual fight by suggesting that “big girls who go potty don’t need to cry at bedtime.” Totally worked.