Before I had kids I used to wonder WHAT IN THE HELL women were doing in the bathroom!!?

Whenever I went into a public bathroom there was urine on the floor, urine on the seat, even urine on the DOOR for cryin' out loud! 

How can you miss the huge-ass hole?  Pardon my French!  I mean, honestly!

A three and a half year old daughter later, I KNOW how urine ends up on the floor.  And on the toilet seat!  Maybe not on the door...

When BG first started using "the toilet" (and by this I mean the one you and I use, not the "little kid potty") she was very afraid of falling in.  So much so that she learned to put the potty seat on the seat before sitting.  I was so happy that she was NOT peeing in her pants that I don't think I noticed anything amiss.

But as she got older and bolder she didn't use the potty seat anymore.  That's when things started getting messy!

One day I walked into her bathroom barefoot and walked right into a puddle right under the toilet!!

Since it was so preposterous to think it was anything but water, I didn't say anything.

But then it happened again!

Again, I didn't say anything.

Then one day, she was walking around the house and I noticed a huge wet spot on her butt!  It wasn't low enough to have been caused by an accident though, it was high up on the butt cheek as if she'd sat on something wet.

I decided to get to the bottom of what was going on.  One day she went into the bathroom and I followed her in.  She sat right down on the potty and started peeing.  Right away I noticed HOW she was sitting.  She was hanging on to the seat for dear life.  But her hands were behind her on the seat, at least at a 45 degree angle.  This makes for a lounging position versus a sitting upright position.  This position can compromise your aim!

And then I saw it, a spout of urine come shooting out of the toilet!!

It dripped off the front edge of the toilet right into the back of her pants that were around her legs.  The rest hit the floor, making a puddle around the base!  Holy crap!

Suddenly, all the public bathroom messes I'd ever experienced made sense to me.  I had never before considered that there were little girls using those toilets.  I always just assumed it was grown women doing all those crazy things!

The question then is, when will her aim improve?!  I hope the answer is "soon!"