This idea popped into my head and would not go away so I decided to get it out. Sorry for any mistakes I don't have a Beta.

Sunday

It's a nice warm spring day. I am currently watching my beautiful brown hair, blue-eyed two-year old daughter play in the sandbox at the park. RORY. She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Sure she entered my life much earlier than planned, being that I was sixteen when she was born. But she is my entire world and I would do anything for her.

Starting tomorrow the two of us are going to embark on a new adventure: toilet training. Along with that comes new terminology some of which I absolutely hate. The main one being the awful word: POTTY. There is no way that my beautiful daughter will ever utter that dreadful word.

I am silently making a mental list of the things I need to pick up for the big day:

Underwear

Kiddy toilet

More pants

Wipes to clean up messes

As I'm going over my mental list making sure I haven't forgotten anything I see Rory making her way over to me.

"Hey Baby are you having fun?" I ask her smiling when she stops in front of me.

"Yes." She replies and I smile as her two pigtails bounce up and down with a small amount of sand falling from them.

She climbs on my lap and rest her head on my chest while her thumb goes into her mouth. Something that she does when she is tired. A habit I am trying to break.

"No Sweets. Your finger is dirty." I tell her softly. Gently pulling the thumb from her mouth, only to have her place it back in.

"Sweepy." She whines around the appendage.

Sighing I pull a wipe from her diaper bag and clean her hands for my peace of mind.

"How about we go home and I give you a quick bath so you can take a nice nap. And when you wake up we stop by the store to pick up a few things for Monday."I tell her rubbing her back.

"Okay mama." She responds her eyes already closed.

Chuckling I gather our things and stand with Rory in my arms. We make the short walk to the Independence Inn and around the back to our home. It isn't much but it's plenty for us.

As I enter the potting shed I place our bags on a nearby chair and lay Rory in my bed knowing this will cause her to wake. While my sleeping beauty wakes I start the bath making the water the perfect temperature for her. By the time I finish Rory is calling out for me.

"Mama." She whines.

"I'm right here baby doll." I assure her and begin to undress her.

I give her a quick ten minute bath making sure to get all the sand out of her hair. Dressing her in a navy sundress I place her in the middle of my bed. Preparing a sippy cup of warm milk the way she likes it I make my way over to the bed and hand it to her.

"Okay Babe, sweet dreams and I'll be here when you wake up."

"Night, night." She tells me leaning up and giving me a quick kiss on the lips.

Settling back in the bed she starts to drink her milk as her eyes slowly droop shut. While Rory naps my mind wanders to Monday and how it will go. I silently hope that Rory will pick it up quickly.

I had spoken to Mia about it explaining to her how Rory hates having a dirty diaper and makes me change her immediately and how she is almost always dry when she wakes up from her nap. Mia told me that she is probably ready to start potty training. I asked Mia how to go about doing that.

She explained that the best way to go about it was to eliminate the diapers completely only using them when she naps and at bed time. I should have her sit on the potty every ten to fifteen minutes to try to go. When she does have an accident don't get upset. Explain that she is in underwear and needs to use the potty and then sit her on the potty.

During the explanation I cringe every time Mia says the word "potty". I have to admit I am quite nervous about this.

Mia must have sensed my nervousness because she placed a hand on my arm and told me it would be okay. She also altered my schedule so that I could focus on toilet training Rory for two weeks. I hope that's enough time for her to get it.

I am so grateful to Mia and everything she has done for the two of us. I don't know where we would be if she hadn't give me a job and place to stay.

I go to Rory's dresser and check to see how many pants and skirts she has. I know she will be going through those much faster than her tops.

Deciding I should get her about six more bottoms so that I hopefully won't be doing laundry everyday.

Sandals

I add to my list. That way she'll have another pair and I wont have to worry about her wetting her sneakers and them starting to smell.

I finish my list and take a deep breath telling myself that everything will be fine.

An hour and a half after she fell asleep I hear the telltale signs of my angel waking from her nap. I glance over at the bed as she's letting out a big yawn and stretching.

"Mama." She calls.

"I'm right here Baby." I tell her and make my way over to the bed. Waiting for the start of her wake up ritual.

With her eyes still slightly closed she holds her arms out to me. I take her into my arm and sit in the glider that Mia gave me. Rory straddles my lap, her head resting on my chest and thumb in her mouth while she plays with a lock of my hair. I run my hand through her hair taking in the baby scent that she still carries.

I love our little ritual that we developed and cherish every moment of it. Our ritual last for fifteen minutes before Rory is ready to start the rest of her day.

"Milk." She request.

"Of course." As I sit her down I check her diaper and it is dry.

"We need to get your shoes on Babe so we can go to the store."

"Shoes." Rory repeats and goes in search of them.

With shoes on, diaper bag and milk in tow we venture to the lobby of the Independence Inn in search of Mia.

Mia helped me get my license when I turned eighteen and agreed to let me use her car for the trip to the store.

"Mia!" Rory yells when she spots her surrogate grandmother.

"There's my beautiful girl." Mia greets lifting Rory into her arms. "What have you been up to today?"

"Went to park. Pay in sand"

"Really? What else?"

"Umm… Take bath n nap. Now go to store."

"Wow you've had quite a day so far."

"Hey Mia thanks again for letting me use you car."

"No problem dear. You two have fun and be safe."

In the car Rory is drinking the milk that she forgot about when she was told she was going to go see Mia. Thirty minutes later we arrive at the Hartford Mall.

"Okay Baby we have to get you a few things for Monday when you start toilet training."

"What dat?" Rory ask scrunching her face.

Smiling at my daughter's cuteness I answer her.

"Toilet training is where you go pee, pee in the toilet and no more diapers for you." I try to explain to the two-year old.

With Rory now in a shopping cart I start checking of items from my list.

Sandals: check

I say adding a clear pair in the cart. They will match with everything.

Standing in front of the underwear I look for Rory's size.

"What dat?"

"These are underwear. You are going to use these now and no diaper." I explain.

"Diaper bye, bye." Rory says touching her diaper and wrinkling her eyebrows.

"Yes. Diapers only for bed."

"Diaper night, night?" Rory asks.

"Yes."

"Those." Rory points to a pack of princess underwear.

I find the correct size and hand them to her. Smiling Rory admires the brightly colored underwear. I add four more packs to the cart.

Underwear: check

"Next stop pants."

The store was having a really good sale on the bottoms. I was able to get her ten pairs of skirts and shorts.

Bottoms: check

"Toilet, toilets, toilets." I say to my self reading the signs above the aisles. "Bingo." I say when I find the right one.

I see a large assortment of colors to choose from and don't know which one to get. Turning to Rory I ask her which one she likes. It is for her after all.

"Dat one." She points to a pink and white one.

Taking the box with the color she wants I add it to the part.

Kiddy toilet: check

I add a large pack of wipes to the cart and quickly review my list making sure I don't forget anything. Once satisfied that I have everything I head to the cash register.

"Mama peas." Rory pleads pointing to some books.

"Okay Sweets lets see what they have."

I look through the books and find a cute one about a little girl who is learning to use the toilet. It's perfect so I hand it to Rory and we finally pay for our things.

By the time we make our way back to Stars Hollow it's going on five, Rory's dinner time.

I return the keys back to Mia and told her how the trip went and the questions Rory was asking me.

Leaving Rory with Mia I go to the kitchen to get our dinner. Sookie the intern chef there and my best friend always makes us a little bag knowing I can't cook.

"Thanks Sookie. We would starve without you." I tell her. "I'll see you later I need to go feed my girl."

"Send her in before you go."

I send Rory in to see Sookie while I tell Mia about the book I got.

"Mama look!" Rory yells running to me. I catch her in my arms and lift her up.

"Wow Hun. You got cookies. When you finish your dinner you can have one. Say bye to Mia so we can go." I tell her and she leans forward and gives her a kiss.

That night after dinner and dessert while Rory is drinking her milk I read her the new book. When we're done we brush our teeth and go to bed.

This wouldn't let me add the check marks it looked so nice so I had to just write the word in. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Interested to hear what you think.