New Panties for a New Year

We have been working on learning to use the potty for two or three months now and today is the first day of wearing big girl panties!!! Maddy has been successfully using her little potty or the seat on our big potty at home for about 3 weeks almost all the time so we thought it would be a good time to transition to the next step....She picked out four packages of panties at Target yesterday and is SO excited to wear her big girl panties just like mama. When we are folding laundry she separates mama's panties from daddy's panties which sends daddy into hysterical fits pointing out that his are called underwear NOT panties. The panties she loves the most are the Little Mermaid and I think it is odd that she would be so attached to them since she doesn't watch TV and has never seen that movie or any merchandise or toys that would have introduced her. Maybe Disney characters are hardwired into toddler's bodies and it is like a drug or something. Or maybe it is because for a while now when she puts on her pants she has to put both legs into the same hole and proclaim "Mermaid!!" so she has that as her reference. Wish us luck in this next step of our potty learning adventures! (Camera still not uploading, but I have SOOOO many cute pictures to share, darnit!)