Day 2 of attempting potty training. Again only an hour and a half of pure naked time was attained due to the high energy level needed by me. I never realized how hard it is to watch your kid every single second. I'm so used to going into the kitchen for something or doing laundry, etc and letting her be on her own for a few minutes. Dangerous, when she's running around bare bottomed with so many possible targets to pee or poop on. I think in that 1 1/2 hours she went to the potty 8 times. 2 successful pees! Yea! Ok, the second one was semi-successful. I turned my back for a split second and hear "tinkle, tinkle, splatter" and realized she was peeing on the floor lamp. What, is she a dog? Anyway, I grabbed her and high tailed it to the bathroom. If it was the Olympics, I bet I would have won gold for that 50 yard dash. We made it in time for her to complete the job. Yea!!!! One of the big lessons I learned from that crazy article was that you should never say "it's okay" when they have an accident. Instead, say "pee/poop goes in the potty." I really had to struggle not to say "it's ok", but I did it. We cleaned up the mess and I kept telling her it was an accident, but big girls pee in the potty.
Here's another cute story...Mary kept saying "poop,poop" so we would go and try, but nothing. Finally I said "push, push"...then I turned into the crazy mommy cheerleader and said "push it out, push it out, waaaaay out". She immediately stood up and pushed her potty out of the bathroom into the hallway. Oh well, I guess that's a lesson for another day...
Yes, she's trying to poop and she took Doug's Critical Thinking book in with her. I guess she needed some good reading material.
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Funny. Arleigh was overly constipated while potty training. Ray and I have both done that cheer more times than I want to remember.
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