A mistake

Dd9 informed me seriously a little while ago that she thinks it was a mistake to have dd2.

Dd2 has been attempting to toilet train herself in an unusual, sometimes rather messy way. She notices that she's urinating in her diaper and doesn't like how it feels, so she takes off the diaper while saying "toilet." But she doesn't always sit on her potty right after, which has led to two instances in the past two days of feces ending up where they should not. Poor dd2. She's trying, but she just doesn't have the order of toilet operations down yet.

I had to point out to dd9 that when she was younger, she also did gross things while in the toddler/toilet training stage, yet we didn't try to return her to the hospital. There was the time that she stood in front of the toilet and urinated all over herself; I realized later that she was trying to imitate her daddy. No one had explained to her that only males can easily urinate while standing.

Dd9 is reconciled to keeping dd2 after all. She's even painting My Little Pony pages with her now.