Seriously there has been nothing but trouble happening in this house. While Colby is up to no good and getting into everything from helping me unload the dishwasher, playing in the toilets, and unloading all the bottom cupboards for me..............
Molly has been up to this. Potty training is so not fun. But we are getting the hang of things. We are only on the beginning of day 2 of really cracking down on it. I know to some of you, you are thinking she is old enough to be trained I know this, and don't think we haven't tried for months. My doctor said with how smart she is she should have been trained at 18 months. However, this is my girl who is terrified of EVERYTHING.
When we first tried I said I was never buying a potty chair because 1) gross, who wants to clean those nasty things when they poop, and 2) you then have to retrain them to go on the big potty. So we bought a little toilet seat to put on the big toilet and she hates it. She refused to sit on it even if we hold her.
Our next attempt I broke down and bought a potty. Not just any potty. It is a princess potty that sings and lights up when she pees in it. We brought it home and she screamed because she did not want me to even get it out of the box. I have heard that you can't force them to do it so I sat it in the laundry room for a week and talked about it every day. We went and picked out Tinker Bell panties and chocolate balls (whoppers) for her treat. Once we convinced her to actually sit on the potty she quickly learned that mom would wait on her hand and foot. Get me my babies, get my juice, I want a book, I want a movie.......... but she would sit there for hours. No joke 3 hours would pass and she would do nothing. The second she got off she peed. We did this for months. A few times she started peeing because I guess she forgot what she was doing, but then stopped immediately after one little drop of pee. So we stopped pushing the issue again.
Monday morning on October 4th (sorry this is for my records) I decided that this was the week. I got the potty out and she was excited to sit on it. WHAT!!! 20 minutes later she peed, and not just a drop. 45 minutes later she did it again. We were both so excited. I was making a huge deal of it! This continued the entire day. Then a huge milestone happened, she pooped. After she was done she was so excited she jumped up to show me and as she was telling me to come see she peed. Oh man. I felt bad for her because she really didn't mean to do it. Other than that she did awesome. It is only 10 AM on day 2 and she has is doing awesome. I am so proud of her!!!
As for me I am ready for it to be done. Between getting everything she needs and cleaning up after Colby's destruction I am tired. If anybody has any tips to help us out give them to me. She is doing great, but how do I get her to tell me when she needs to go? I am the one constantly asking and she will tell me yes or no but how do I get her to just tell me?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Trouble
Posted by Aaron and Megan at 8:30 AM
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YAY! I'm excited for you Megan. So that reminds me of an old friend that was trying to potty train her daughter. She refused to go. They bought her all sorts of doll potties, mini potties, etc. One day while I was there, she pooped in her doll's potty and they were so excited they left it sitting in her room for days. It was really disgusting. If they left it in there too long she often ended up smearing it around the room, walls, doors, floors, anything she could get her hands on.
Woohoo! I know right now it's miserable, but give it time, it WILL get better! The thing that totally clicked with the boys is when we told them not to get Lightning McQueen wet or that it made Lightning McQenn sad when they pooped on him. (Obviously, we have cars underoos.) I'm not sure exactly when the boys started being the ones to tell me they had to go ... but it wasn't long, so hang in there. I think they just got so tired of me asking them constantly and I said, "okay, you don't have to potty now, but make sure you tell me when you DO have to go potty" and made a huge deal out of it if they did. Now I only ask if we're getting ready to leave the house or go to bed. It's awesome.
I hear the second baby is easier to train, so Melia and Colby are going to rock that potty thing! :)
P.S. That picture of Molly totally grinning on the potty is to-die-for!
We are at the same point. Caleb does really well when I take him to the potty every hour or so. We go on outings with no incident (although I do keep a potty in the trunk of my car just in case). But he still seems to have an accident almost every day because he won't just go to the potty himself when nature calls. He's only 2 1/2 and I guess for boys that's young enough that I am just not pushing the whole thing too hard yet. If you find something that works well, let me know!
LOVE YOUR FAMILY PHOTO! SUPER CUTE! LOVE AND MISS YOUR FACES!
Hey Megan you should buy some of those things that child proof your cubbords so colby can't open them...you know what i mean..right?
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