My Con Artist....

My Con Artist, otherwise known as “ Raisins in the Potty” Story

Ahhh…she’s 2 and a half and already trying to outsmart me! And she’s almost succeeding.

I’m raising a con-artist…I just realized this Sunday night. Let me give you some background on what’s been going on at the Robinson household lately…

Avery’s been potty training and she’s done great. She does have some hang ups about doing #2 in the potty. She tells me sometimes that she can’t do it or that she’s scared to….So I’ve been bribing her to get her to “go” in the potty. I offer Skittles, her favorite candy. I told her she could have 5 Skittles if she did #2 in the potty and she said “Ok, mommy!” and went in the bathroom to try.

Over the course of the next hour or two, she toddled between our 4th bedroom(our office) where I was working and the guest bathroom on that side of the house. I’d hear her flip the lid on the potty and then she’d come back to see what I was doing.

Sometime during this time, she went into the kitchen and asked my husband for some raisins(one of her favorite snacks) and he gave her one of those mini boxes of raisins. She came check on me and asked me to change her baby doll’s diaper (which I did) and then I heard her go back into the bathroom. Then I hear this:

“MOMMY!!! I POO-POO ON POTTY…YEAH! I A BIG GIRL…I SO PROUD OF AVERY! YAY !! YAY!!!!” and then the sounds of her clapping for herself…

I jump up and run into the bathroom, glad that she seemed to finally get getting over her hangup. I walk into the bathroom and look into the potty that she proudly stands in front of. I notice small dark round things in the potty…and start clapping and telling her how proud I am of her accomplishment….

Then I took a closer look…

As I opened the potty seat to dump the contents into the toilet….I noticed that the small dark round things were not what I thought they were…She had dumped her raisins in the potty and tried to pass them off as…..well, you know….

I look over at her and she just grinned at me with the biggest smile and then she said…

“It’s my raisins, mommy!”


At least she’s an honest con when confronted with her web of deceit….

After a lecture about not putting raisins in the toilet and not lying to her mother just to get Skittles, she ran off to play and I went back to work…..
And I’m happy to report that yesterday she actually got her Skittles….no raisins that time!