Potty Trained!

Ok, I'm going to call it: Paige is potty trained!

She had an accident on Thursday at daycare, but has been perfect at home since Tuesday. She's waking up by herself to go to the potty--sometimes in the morning, a few times in the middle of the night. And for the most part, we no longer need to prompt her to go to the bathroom--she just goes when she needs to go.

On Friday, she began wearing big kid underwear, and has been perfect so far. She has a full complement of Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, and other princess underwear, plus some Elmo that we haven't tapped into yet. She's pretty excited about it all, and it's amazing to see how much better she can run around when she's not wearing diapers.

We're still going to do training pants at night for a while, as there's no real rush for her to be perfect at night--we have a huge box or two of pull-ups anyway, and most of the time she's dry and so we get several days out of each of one. :)

The only real obstacle left is daycare. She still doesn't want to use the daycare potty, and we're going to let her use a little potty and/or potty seat for the next week or so. I think she'll get it. It's just a matter of being comfortable. As I was writing this, she did ask to sit on the big potty in her bathroom, which is a great step in the right direction.

All in all, she's doing exceptionally well. We're very proud of her!

Needs her privacy

I find this really odd. The first time it was weird, the second time it's odd. A few weeks ago we were at Grandma's house and it was morning and her diaper was dry. So I put her on the baby potty that Grandma has and she asked me to wait outside. So I did and sure enough she peed. It had been a long time since she had peed before this time. Well, that was a few weeks ago. This morning, her diaper was dry again and so I had her sit on the potty. Justin and I were both in the bathroom. I was ironing and Justin was shaving while she just sat there. I was surprised she was even able to hold it that long. Just before I was about to give up and put her diaper back on, I asked if she wanted me to wait outside. She said yes, so we left her alone and closed the door most of the way. Sure enough, less than a minute later I heard her peeing! I don't know why I find this so odd. After all, she's the same way when washing her hands. She wants us to turn the light on, but after that she goes in, closes the door, climbs up on her stool and washes her hands by herself in privacy. If only she gave us some privacy when we go to the bathroom, now that would be nice!

Potty Progress

I think Paige is trying to rush us into potty training her, and we're just not ready! This morning the only way I could get her diaper off of her was when I asked if she wanted to sit on the potty. "Yes" she eagerly answered. She sat there for a few minutes and pushed and grunted (no idea where she learned that from). But when she pushes, she would let out a toot, so she was actually trying! After a few minutes she jumps up and exclaims she went potty. So I praise her for trying. Then I say, ok let's put the diaper back on. And I get a nice, loud, clear "NO"! I struggle with her for several minutes. She manages to pull the diaper out of my hand and then runs into the other room and throws it as far as she can. At this point I'm ready to give up. I tell her fine, but if she has to go pee or poop she needs to tell me first to go on the potty or she's gonna have a big mess in her pants. She pulls her pants up and goes downstairs. Justin is mortified that I was gonna let her sit on our dining room furniture without a diaper. So the struggle began again to get a diaper on. I don't know where she gets her strength. 10 minutes of screaming, squirming and struggling we finally get one on to one unhappy toddler. I really think that if we had a week where we could just let her run around naked and not mind the carpet getting soaked that she would be trained in no time. But we just don't have the time for that right now!

I know she can hold it

Wouldn't you think after not being wet for at least 2 hours, then sitting on the potty for 1 hour while drinking 2 sippy cups of milk that it would just happen? At least that's what I thought. But no, it only happens 30 seconds after putting the diaper back on. I'm not even sure I could hold it that long! I tried everything: stripped her down naked (that's the form it happened in the first time), tickled her, bribed her with cookies...nothing worked! Ah well, I'll try not to make this the potty blog every post.

I spoke with the director at daycare again about her transition into the Twaddler room. They haven't been too consistent with it. So today she was in there from about 10am until I picked her up a little after 5pm. That's the longest she has spent in there at one time. She even took a 2-hour nap in there (usually only sleeps an hour in Toddler room). The interesting thing I learned is that they don't let the kids have sippy cups. They only drink out of real cups. Maybe that's why she drank 2 cups for me tonight if she didn't get very much during the day. I guess we'll have to start practicing drinking from regular cups at home.

Potty Time!

She did it! She finally went pee pee on the potty! I know this is just the beginning, but it seems like we just got past a huge hurdle. I had checked her diaper because I thought she was saying "diapey", but it was dry. And I knew it had been at least 2 hours since she last had it changed so I took her in the bathroom to sit on her potty. We were in there for awhile. I even pulled out the bubbles to help pass the time. Then she heard the Elmo's World theme song on in the other room, so she got off her potty and started walking out of the bathroom with her pants around her ankles. I grabbed her potty and followed her into the living room. I figured it's gotta come out eventually. We watched the entire Elmo's world segment which lasted about 15 minutes and nothing happened except a nice red ring on her bottom from sitting on the plastic for so long. During this time, she managed to completely undress herself and was sitting in the middle of the living room on her potty naked! So I asked if she wanted to take a bath. Of course her answer was "no". In the art of negotiating, I told her to put her pee pee in the potty instead. I think I was in a state of shock when a few moments later I heard it! The good news is it really didn't startle her. I tried to make sure she understood what happened by letting her look in the potty and see the pee pee. The only time she seemed a little frightened is when I poured her pee pee from her potty into the big potty. So I think next time I won't share that part with her.

Who knew I could ramble on so long about pee!