The Joys of Potty Training

We've been strictly potty training Casey for about 1 month now. Up until now we've been giving her freedom to go whenever she wanted. She started showing lots of interest at around 22 months of age. For 6 months she would occasionally announce she had "pee pee". We would rush to the toilet and she would do her thing. It came very quick and natural for her, but there were also many weeks where she wasn't interested and preferred her diapers. When she turned 2 1/2 we decided to finish the training she started on her own and get her out of diapers completely. I'm proud to say she is getting close to being potty trained.

• She does very good going pee pee and holding it for long periods.

• She has no fear of the toilet and has used the BIG potty from the start (this was a bonus since we are not required to carry around a portable potty seat every where we go).

• She has 1 pee accident about every 3rd day.

• At nap she in her training undies and stays dry

• At bedtime we use a diaper as it's hit or miss if she stay dry all night.

• She doesn't have a good handle on telling us when she needs to poop. 50% of of the time says "poo poo" and we get to the potty in time. The other time she's too distracted and it ends up in her undies. Those are messy. :(

• To keep her motivated we are using a Sticker Potty Chart and she gets to put stickers on it every time she's successful.

• We are on our second chart. She filled the first one with 40 stickers.

• Our goal (and hopefully hers too) is to get her completely trained by the end of April.

• Her reward is to see a movie at the theater.

This is a photo of her on the toilet. She likes to stradle her legs wide and lean forward and rest her elbows on the seat. In this shot we had just come in from outside playing. I thought it was cute she still has her hat and mittens on.


PS. Our weekend visit with family was a blast I will post details on that tonight and tomorrow.