We woke up this morning and said bye-bye to the diapers. Potty training, phase one (the naked popka phase) began today! Once mastered, this will be followed by "pants but no panties phase" and finally "pants & panties" phase.
Sofia is using two IKEA potties right now. The white one stays in the bathroom, and the lime green one resides mostly in the kitchen (central to the den, living room and office.) The green one travels with us outside or to the basement - wherever we go to play.
I kept her hydrated with berries and apple juice so we would have lots of opportunity. Once the novelty of tinkling all over the place and wiping it up wore off, Sofia dutifully went pee-pee on the potty mid morning. It was exciting! We poured it into the toilet and she flushed and got to do her favorite activity - hand washing.
She napped in a pull up which was only slightly wet when she woke up. To sum up the afternoon/evening, there were three pee pee occurrences. (1) I caught her mid-stream at the pantry and redirected her successfully to the potty. (2) She asked my mom (by pointing) to use the potty during her bath and did. (3) Total miss during playtime in the basement. So I'd say we are operating at a 50% success rate! No poopy yet. We shall see what happens tomorrow...
Sounds like a decent start. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteAww! What a CUTIE in those bare cheeks ;-)
ReplyDeleteSounds like she's doing fairly well!! I'd just encourage you to encourage her to go potty every 15 minutes and if she gets some to come out, give her some kind of a reward. I promise the reward part doesnt last forever. You could do a dark chocolate mini chocolate chip or something little so she could have a couple each time...
But i think making her try every so often and doing a reward of your choice are good things to try to do :-)
Excited to read more!!!
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ReplyDeleteNat, when ever i finally have to deal with this i am totally asking you for help.
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