Potty Training

After a few failed attempts we are trying the potty training thing again. I tried a few times and it ended up in both of us being irritated with one another. She then took it upon herself in July but that only lasted a month and she was back to diapers. She started going to the bathroom on her own again last week so we set the date for Monday the 3rd of January to "stop wearing diapers". She will still wear them when she's sleeping though. So far she's been doing pretty good. We are trying the "get a sticker every time you go potty" method. We had to go out and run some errands so we put a pull up on. The errands took twice as long as we were expecting and she had an accident. Of course I didn't have any new underwear or pull ups but I did have diaper. At first she didn't want to put it on but after a few minutes trying to convince her she clapped her hands and shouted "yeah" because she was going to have to wear a diaper.

The seventh of January, five days into the potty training, and she had an accident free day! She's had two accident free nights as well. Two more days like this, it's all we need (this is what mommy decided). The next thing is to teach her to completely finish before she tries to flush. She gets around 5 flushes each time otherwise. I think it was Wednesday and she looked where we keep the diapers and shouted "goodbye diapers" and waved goodbye.

The nice thing about having some time home to help is that Edgar can't just get frustrated and put her in diapers. If he does that when I go back to work then he will have problems because I refuse to buy her more diapers and he will have to start all over with her from scratch.

On the 10th it had been three days completely accident free. I'm calling it official now and hope it sticks this time. It looks more promising so I think we won't have a problem. Mommy is so excited and Lexi now can wear necklaces because she's a big girl (it was our deal if she went three days without an accident). She even wears undies to bed. Good job Lexi!!!