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December 28, 1999

Hope everyone's holidays were happy. We had a very nice Christmas. My cousin Julie came up from Pennsylvania on Christmas Eve. It was great to see her and spend two days with her. She is coming back up for New Year's because she had heard there was going to be snow the day after Christmas and she was nervous about driving alone, so she took my 21-year-old brother back with her and they are coming back here on Friday morning.

Jordan loved Christmas!!!! She had such a good time. She was so cute when she was opening her presents, she kept saying, "Oh, I love it," and "Oh, boy!" She had us laughing so hard. I took a million pictures, and I can't wait to get them developed.

After we opened presents at our house, we went to my Grandmother's house where Santa had left Jordan even more presents. Then all the extended family and some friends dropped by during the day with more gifts. At the end of the night, Jordan was asking for more presents since she had been opening some every couple of hours.

She had a blast playing with all her third cousins who were there, and she didn't stop all day. She had gotten up at 7:15 a.m. and never took a nap and at 10:00 p.m. was still full of energy (and chocolate). All in all, it was a wonderful holiday.

I do have a question for everyone out there. Over Christmas, everyone had to give me their views on toilet training since Jordan is 26 months. The problem that we've been having with Jordan is that since the baby was born, she wants nothing to do with the potty at all. Before, she was really into it. We have a potty video tape that she watched constantly and she always wanted to sit on the potty with or without clothes. One time she even peed in the potty (I think it was kind of by accident), but now she wants nothing -- and I mean nothing -- to do with the potty. Whenever we ask her if she wants to sit on it, she says no. When I try to take her there anyway, hoping she'll try it once she sees it, she starts screaming and tries to get away. We tried putting it in the same room that she is in but she freaks out and throws it out of the room. She knows when she needs to have a bowel movement because she will tell anyone and everyone that she is pooping, and sure enough about 10 minutes later she does. We always tell her, "Let's go sit on the potty!" when she tells us she is pooping, but she won't. She'll go get a diaper and ask to be changed. We've tried leaving her diaper off since we heard that kids don't like to go to the bathroom on themselves. Jordan doesn't care, she finds it fascinating when she pees and she'll go hide to poop and then play with it!!!

Of course my Grandmother and my great aunts think we should force her to use the potty by holding her down on it. I really don't think that is what I want to do, I kind of think that if we keep doing what we are doing one day she'll be ready but I'm not sure. I don't have any other friends with kids, and so far we have tried all the advice we've been given (except for Gramma's). If anybody has any idea on how to help, let me know. I don't want to push her too much, but I also don't want her to not be able to go to preschool because she isn't toilet trained. Help!!!

I'll look forward to hearing from others.

Until next week, Happy New Year!!

Megan and Jordan