If You Give a Pig a Pancake leads to progress

Sidnie is in love with the book If You Give a Pig a Pancake. She wants you to read it to her all the time. I decided, this past week, to finally dig out Jordan's old tap shoes, like they do in the book. And Sidnie has been delighted with the tap shoes ever since. Sidnie loves to wear them.

Here she is ready for bed, with those tap shoes still on her feet...


Well they actually have helped me teach her that it's okay to go to the bathroom WITHOUT having to take all of your clothes off from the waste down. We have tried many times to teach her this concept, but she will absolutely refuse to go until her pants and undies are all the way off. One day this past week, shortly after having me lace up those tap shoes onto her feet, she told me she needed to go to the batroom. I was able to convice her that she could go and without taking off the beloved shoes. And it worked! Now she is able to just pull down clothing to use the restroom and not "take it all off." It has been wonderful!