Potty Time

Tonight I cant help but to be full of pride for my little girl. Yes, to be prideful is never a good thing, but in this case, i think there should be an exception... (dont tell my high school seminary teacher, he would disagree, but he isnt a mom that has a girl potty training) :)

My sweetest Brooklyn. Let me tell you a story about this sweet one. We attempted potty training a couple months before Parley was born. It was unsuccessful to say the least. I was well prepared. Tons of juice, pull-ups, candy, prizes, mentally (I thought). We geared up sat her on the potty, we sat, and sat, and sat. I wasn't as mentally prepared as i thought I was. I got frustrated. She cried and wanted off. I wanted to be firm and get her to pee once on the potty. I knew if she did she would be good as gold to be trained. She WOULD NOT. She is a suborn girl. A beautiful stubborn independent little girl. I finally let her off and she immediately peed on the floor. I gave up then and there. Pathetic, but hey i was pregnant and apparently not totally sold on the idea. 

Fast forward to the present. For the last week she has wanted to sit on the potty at various times in the day. I hate that. Its such a pain. She is still in diapers. Its a whole ordeal to get her undressed, on the potty for a 10 second try and back down, then i have to put a diaper back on....you get the idea. It was not fun. I was hating it. We went camping over the 4th and she wanted to do it several times in the trailer. SUCH A PAIN! So Monday, on a whim and by a whim i mean on a whim. She woke up, she was soaked through her diaper...in my head i thought ENOUGH! So i took her into the bathroom told her to go pee on the potty. She didnt. I took her into her room told her no more diapers. She was big girl. We put panties on and away we went. I asked her if she needed to pee, "No" ok so we went longer and longer and longer, finally put her on the toilet, no pee. Down we went. Went about our business. Then, "Uh Mommy, i wet". We proceeded to run to the bathroom to try and see if anything was left, nope. So new undies. again a few questions if she needed to go, nope. Finally after a couple trys SHE DID IT! Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. Another accident, and another, pull-up at nap...wet. Thats ok. Woke up, peed on the potty! Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. After dinner, Peed on the toilet.Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. Pull-up on for night. Woke up wet. Thats ok. Onto the potty we went first thing. She went! Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. Got dressed, played a little. Mommy asked, "Yup mommy I pee" she did. Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. This continues all day. Nap time, NO pull-up (she refuses, more on that in a minute) she woke up dry, ran to the potty, almost made it...literally in the door way she was loosing it. Plopped her on the potty, she finished! Yea! Happy dances, high fives, mommy squealing like a little girl. Running around playing. "Mommy, I need pee!" Run to the potty...she did need to go, but went poop! Way to go princess! Success! 

Long story short, no accidents besides a slight slip right after a nap. Pretty dang awesome. One day and she is doing awesome. Only problem right now....she refuses unders. Thats right, she went commando all day today....we tryed all the unders i have for her, nope. Told her mommy wears them, Ky wears them, even the daycare kids pulled their unders up to show her they had them on too, in effort to get he naked girl some unders on. FINALLY, at 5PM she decided she would. It was a slight force on my part, and giving in on hers. But hey a little give and take is a good thing. 

So here we are at 11PM, she is in bed, no pull-up...she refused it. Oh well, not the first wet bed i have cleaned up and wont be the last. I will be amazed if she wakes up dry, she is usually quite soppy in the mornings. But, we are doing it! Here goes nothing! 

Way to go baby girl, Your so big! You learned so fast. You make mommy so proud!

Potty Time!!

For about 5 months or so(since the last time we tried) potty training has been close to a swear word in Kyler's eyes.... (cant remember our horrible effort? want to? CLICK HERE and it will take you back in time, magic right!)
*We have asked him from time to time, "Never, ever, ever i say!" would be all we would hear back in response.
*He asked maybe 3 to 4 times in the last 5 months to go pee, he never would. Not once.
*He did show an interest in underwear in the last 5 months...an interest in wearing them on his head. Who teaches kids to do that??
* He was asked by Grandmas, Uncles, Aunts, Friends, and many others when he was going to do it. "never" was his only reply.

SO, Monday (yes, yesterday) We were getting ready, for the day. I grabbed a diaper, pants, shirt and sat down waiting for him to come in to get him dressed. (may i add i grabbed the last diaper, and thought "oh to just be done with these with Ky" Yes, i really thought that. And then thought my order should be at the post office, found out it is later that day.).....in the mean time.... Kyler comes in, bypasses me and walks to his dresser pulls out the bottom drawer, pulls out McQueen underwear and comes over to me, tells me something like, "i want these" i give him a seriously look, he counters with a "yup" look.
In my head all i am thinking is "fine, i will let him. At least maybe he will notice when he pees and that will be one step in the right direction. I wont push it in the least, in fact i will just ask him to go, not making him get on the toilet (this is when the 'never, ever, evers' happened last time) Im going super chill. More chill than anyone would think a mother should be." I fully planned on changing lots of underwear, lots of pants, lots of poopy, wet yucky pants that day. But, i was feeling willing to do it, so here we go.
2 accidents before lunch. NO biggy. He pees on the toilet at nap time, wakes up wet ( i did put a pull up on, i am not that willing to clean up that big of messes.) He later goes in the bathroom all by himself and undresses and is on the toilet peeing!!!!! WHAT!!??  The rest of the story still knocks me flat with shock. He continued to pee the rest of the day. (might i add he loves that he gets to choose the colors of M&M's for his reward. These candies have been in a Mason Jar staring at him for 5 months and he is just loving that he get some now) He Peed before bed, put a pull up on, and HE WOKE UP DRY! Yes, my boy woke up dry. He pees this morning, eat some breakfast, started peeing in his pants, STOPPED and came and told me to help him 'hurry on toilet' and finished peeing. The rest of the day i would ask him if he needed, never doing more than that and i am proud to say he stayed dry the rest of today. He woke up dry from nap, he drove out to Salina-shopped-and back home about 2 hours of time and did perfect. He did say he really needed to go while we were in IFA so we ran to the toilet, but man those big hole toilets are just tooooooo scary for a little bummed almost 3 year olds, and he choose TO HOLD IT till we got home. And he did just that, the minute we got out of the truck he came in dropped his drawers and peed like no ones business. PROUD MOMMY to say the least.
He did this all on his own. At his own time. He is an amazing awesome little man. When he decides to do something he just does it. This is how he has been his whole life. I cant wait to see what he grows up to be...scratch that, i can wait. :) I am enjoying his little personality. I love his super happy smile accompanied by "You smile at me mommy, oh!! you smiled at me, yea!! I so happy" My heart is full of happiness for this kid. He is my big bud. He is wonderful, and not just cause i don't have to change his bottom anymore!!
I will keep you updated on our success's...i am thinking really positive here.