S'mores, potty training, etc

Life with toddlers can be crazy as all parents know. Here's a story of just one crazy evening with our almost two and a half year old. Saturday evening we decided to build a fire and make s'mores. Fun, yummy, all went well till things were winding down and John went to pick Caroline a couple raspberries from the garden. Our girl LOVES any kind of berries. So while he was in the garden he decided to pull some weeds. One of the weeds had purple berries on it, and yes, before she could be stopped Caroline ate one. Immediate panic, concern....get on the phone try to identify the weed. Realize that is taking a long time, we're not figuring it out, and our little girl possibly has eaten poison. Call poison control.....be told by the lady that "the rule of 5" applies. If she ate less than 5, and is showing no symptoms then it is probably nothing to worry about. I decide to start baths while John continues trying to identify the plant because we want to know what she ate! While the kids are playing in the tub I step out of the bathroom for a minute to see if John has had any luck (he hadn't). I'm called back by a shrieking Caroline telling me, "I'm pooping!" I've already experienced one poop in the tub incident and had no desire to repeat it, so grab a naked wet Caroline and plop her on the toilet where she poops. I'd been promising her chocolate for whenever this happened for months now as I've been trying to encourage the idea of potty training. So John left his plant search to get into my chocolate stash. Hopefully, hopefully this will encourage her to want to potty train soon.......:-)

After we got the kids settled for the night (with no signs of any problems from Caroline), John and I got on the laptop and searched and it didn't take us long to find out it was Eastern Black Nightshade.As it turns out only the unripe berries are poisonous, and even then you would have to eat a lot, not just one.. Most importantly the ripe berry she ate was NOT poisonous. It's funny, I hadn't thought I was that worried about it after what poison control said, but once we knew for sure it was ok I felt like a huge  weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. So we are thankful that all ended well, and will be careful about Caroline going in the garden from now on.