Reading in the Bathroom again

Alexa has been a lot of fun lately. This morning I heard her giggling in the bathroom. This makes me instantly worry that something is being dunked in the toilet - but this morning she was just reading a Dr Seuss book on the closed toilet! She is doing so many fun new things lately. When she gets up and we don't serve her breakfast immediately she points to the kitchen and makes her ah ah sound (which is the best start she has made at saying want). When David went in the kitchen she got the oatmeal pot out of the cupboard and put it on the stove. Sometimes when she wants to eat she gets her bib and waves it at us.
She is also frustrating at times (of course). Sunday I made peas for her as part of Sunday lunch. Since she loves peas so much, once she starts on them she won't eat anything else, so we gave her some mashed potatos first. When she wouldn't try them, we added peas to the potatos and mixed them...but she would not eat any pea which had touched the potatos. We had a maj0r battle over this involving a time out and lots of crying. Finally she got down without eating them. An hour later she went to the table and started eating it. Then yesterday for lunch she ate mashed potatos with no peas in them.
Potty training is sort of at a slow point. Sometimes she tells me when she has just gone potty, so she does sort of get it..this morning I caught her on the red chair grunting, so I rushed her to the toilet (some poop in diaper at this point) and we sat there, and nothing happened, so I put her diaper on, and she finished pooping in it. Stage fright or something.