This is probably not the most exciting post in the world, but it is for us! It is mostly for my own journaling purposes and those family members who care and are not able to be around for all of it!
Well, the time has finally come for potty training. For the last few months I have been begging and pleading with Madilyn to try and go potty on the toilet. But my child is EXTREMELY stubborn and would not have it any way but her own, and you cant physically force your child to go on the toilet. So I have tried waiting patiently, giving lots of encouragement and promising her a bike it she would just go once on the potty. Well, on Monday just before Christie was going to leave to the airport we could tell Madilyn was getting ready to go #2 in her diaper (we know all the signs) so Taylor asked her if she wanted to go potty on the toilet, and she said yes. But that wasn't a big surprise because she often sits on the toilet, but never does anything on it. So he sets her on and then tells her he will shut the door and let her go alone. Well a few seconds later we hear, "I DID IT" and sure enough the evidence was there!!! We were all SO SO SO pumped, because she is 2 years and 9 months old and that was the VERY first time she has gone on the potty. She of course we had to go thru with our promise and go get her a bike. It was 5pm and we all drove into Honolulu, a 1 hr. drive. We got her a bike, and she could hardly stand the excitement of it all. We got home really late because we were dropping Christie off. She has been training like a dream, we put her straight away in big girl undies and she only had 1 #1 accident the first day, and the second day she did nearly perfect. So lets see how today goes. And I do put a pull up on her for naps and bedtime, I have no idea how to potty train for naps and bed time...so if anyone has any great advice for that I would really appreciate it. She usually wakes up dry after naps, but never during the night. Anyway, that is our very exciting news for the week!!! Finally!!!!!!!!! Oh, and the very next day she rode her bike with training wheels all day long, and in the morning she had no idea how to get the bike moving, and now she can do it all by herself. I am so impressed with how well she has been progressing and learning so quickly. And out of nowhere she can count to 10 perfectly!
Next I will post pictures from Rob, Colette, and Christies visit here to Hawaii!
Yay for potty training! :-) We are going to potty train Pressly in a couple weeks, but right now I work with 13 2-3 year olds and have been potty training most of them! haha... anyways, for diapers and naps use pull ups until you notice the pull ups are completely dry. When they first learn it usually takes some children a little bit to be able to hold it during nap time and especially a full night. That would be my advice, but it soon enough the pull ups will always be dry in the morning :-)
ReplyDeleteHorray! What a dream! For the past couple weeks Noah has been pooping in his undies. It's gross and I hope that Madilyn doesn't backtrack like NOah's doing! What a bum! And so cute that she now has a bike! I can't wait to go outside and do stuff like that again. Jealous.
ReplyDeleteYay! Way to go! I can only wait for the day when Sophie is potty trained... we still have a while! :)
ReplyDeleteThat Madilyn is way too smart! How exciting! ...Oh what I would do to see her ride her new bike...
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