Another Pottytraining Update

Friday was a horrible day of potty training! I'm not sure Princess "went" in the potty even once. I wanted to quit! It didn't help that the dog had made a huge mess of our carpet the day before with Amish bread starter! She ate almost the entire bag. Bag included! Then, on Friday, she threw it up! Just one more nasty mess on my carpets. I think we may be getting new carpets when our last child is done potty training. OR at least getting them professionally cleaned!

But, we kept going and today has been wonderful! She hasn't had a single accident and even went #2 after telling me she needed to! She went on my MIL's toilet with a potty seat on it and it has been a day to be happy that we are doing this!

"It's Working!!"

***Potty training update!

Things are going well. I think the difference is that I have the confidence, understanding and readiness. She is ready, too. She doesn't want to wear diapers anymore and she is doing great.

We had a couple of days where she just couldn't go on the toilet. She would say, "It's not working." Then, when she was finally able to do it, she exclaimed, "It's working!!" Every time, when she pees on the potty, she says that. It's so cute and we use the terminology, too.

So far, it is working. Yes, I'm mostly the one who is potty trained, but she is so willing and is enjoying it!

Finally!

The Year of the Potty

This is it! I'm finally going to potty train Princess. Actually, I'm going to start the process with Doodle as well. I know, I know it sounds crazy, but I've been reading a great book about it. (For a later post!)

We have a great little potty from Ikea. And we are ready to go.

Well, I am ready. I just hope my girls are!

Bribery

We've offered a swing set if Princess will get potty trained. Although she really wants it, she is still completely unmotivated to stop wearing diapers. We printed a picture of the one she'll get, too. Since she has a three year old's attention span, we thought it would be good for her to be able to see it often. (A friend suggested we get her a toy she really wants and put it on a shelf in the bathroom. We thought that would be hard with a swing set.)

We don't know what to do. I have mostly left her alone and let her take her time in deciding she is ready, but she's almost 3 1/2. We are ready! We bought a new potty. She loves it and will sit on if for a long time. She's even gone in it a couple of times. She still doesn't care at all whether she's wearing a diaper or not.

I wish I had a magic wand!

I'm Pottytrained!

If only Princess were as well.

This is day three and we have had only one or two accidents per day so far! It is great! As long as I remember to make her sit on the toilet about every hour, she does great. So, I'm really the one that is trained for now. I hope that eventually she catches on, too. She is enjoying the Tinkerbell panties and feeling like a big girl.

One horror story: After the first day of going on the toilet, we went to the store to get some "pretty panties", as promised. She had gone to the bathroom a little before we left, so I thought she'd be fine on a 20 minute trip. Well, she wet her pants right in front of the underwear display. It was really embarrassing to walk through the store holding new panties, with a little girl in wet pants. I got lucky, though. We had a towel in the van that she could sit on so that she didn't soak her car seat!

Adventures in Pottytraining

Last night, Belle decided she wanted to use the toilet. She sat there for a very short time (without making a deposit) and didn't want to put a diaper on. She wanted to wear pretty panties. I put some on her with the promise that she wouldn't wet or soil them. She was very excited! But she didn't want to go to the toilet when she needed to go...

She stayed dry for maybe an hour and then wet on the floor. (Thank goodness she happened to be standing in the kitchen!) She was pretty disturbed, and wanted to put more underwear on. She also wants princess panties. I told her we'd buy them for her when she can go pee in the toilet.

I don't think she's quite ready, but I think pretty panties will do the trick when she is!

Any advice?