M&M Addiction and Throwing Signs

I think I've unintentionally passed on my chocolate addiction to my oldest daughter. A friend of mine suggested using M&Ms as a motivator for using the potty. It was a really good suggestion because potty training is going very well. In fact, tonight Olivia went to bed with underpants on. Now, I may think this was a mistake in the morning, but she wanted to do it and her diaper is often dry in the morning, so I thought it was worth a try. Anyway, my friend suggested that I give Olivia one M&M every time she pees in the potty. I tried that, and both Olivia and I thought that one just didn't seem to be enough. So now every time she pees she gets two M&Ms. At first this didn't seem like much at all, but I wasn't considering who I was dealing with. I swear that every time Olivia goes pee, she holds in just a little so that in five minutes she'll have to pee again and will get 2 more of her new favorite treat. The last couple of mornings she's earned 10 M&Ms before 9:00 a.m. This girl either really has to pee a lot or she's scamming me for candy. I guess it doesn't really matter much as long as it's getting her potty trained. I'm proud to announce that Sophia has been doing a new sign. She has been signing for "more", but it's her own version of the actual sign-language sign. She points her finger to the palm of her hand. I've read that it's not unusual for kids to modify the signs. I remember Olivia doing the same thing with a few of the signs. Sophia is also signing more for milk. She had kind of quit signing all together for awhile, so I'm glad she's back on track. Sophia had her one-year check-up a couple of weeks ago. The doctor said she looks healthy and developmentally on track. She's cruising around furniture, she knows at least 3 words (mama, dada, baba, and her 2 signs count, too), she can wave and clap, and she's feeding herself. She's between the 25th and 50th percentile for both weight and height. We've completely switched from formula to whole milk, and we're working on weaning her off of the bottle. We've cut out two bottle feedings, and now she only takes a bottle twice a day. Once she gets better at using a cup, I think it will be fairly easy to wean her off of the last two bottle feeding. She's seems to enjoy eating more finger foods. She really likes cheese, Goldfish crackers, bananas, any kind of cereal, green beans, and peas. I think she'll be a good eater just like her sister.