She is so smart...most of the time.

One of the many, many amazing things about Annie is that she was completely potty trained when we entered each other's lives. She has not (so far) experienced any of the possible regression. In China, Annie would often have to go "she she" every fifteen minutes. Likely, this was due to stress and her being uncertain of her environment as well as trying to figure out who the heck we were. Her frequent use of the bathroom has diminished substantially since we have arrived home. 

Annie has a bathroom routine and an extreme love of toilet paper. She enters the bathroom, must turn on all the lights herself, unrolls three times the amount of toilet paper she could possibly use, wads it up and stuffs it in between her tiny little legs usually before the urine has stopped.

A few weeks ago I started putting my hand on the TP roll saying: " New rule, no touch until your done." Within a day Annie would start to reach for the TP, stop, look at me and say: "New rule." I would verify, "Yes, new rule!"

One day Tim had her in the bathroom, as he placed his hand on the roll of paper also proclaiming; "New rule!"  Annie looked at him and said: "Silly rule!"

As most children Annie seems to always need to use the bathroom when we are out in public. Every experience is fascinating to her. Bathrooms with hand blowers are her favorite even if old fashion paper towels are available.

  Tonight, as par usual,  we were at the far end of Target when Annie started saying: "she she." It took us a while to leave the Target restroom because Annie insisted that the tampon machine could dry her hands if I would only press the correct button!