We've been working with Olivia to try and potty train. We did a weekend of just underwear or nothing at all and had lots of accidents or she'd wait till nap or bedtime and go in her pull-up. The one days she didn't go at all until close to 3 pm. At daycare she refused to sit on the potty and for us she averaged 2-3 x a night she'd sit on ours, but only for a few minutes and want off. I have started a sticker chart at home and that worked at first...but slowly became old news. I refuse to make her because I don't want her to revolt against the potty chair. Every night we try and read her "Potty Chair" book and we always talk about how diapers are for babies and Olivia is a big girl. I've appreciated everyones advice, but we choose to do it this way.
Well all weekend I asked her if she needed to go potty... we had a nother weekend of running around. At tiny tots she told me she wanted to sit on the potty. So I ran her to the restroom and she sat on the big potty for about 5 minutes and wanted off. So another pull-up went on. Saturday we had no luck even sitting on the potty and then Sunday came and I knew she hadn't had a bowel movement in almost 2 days. I gave her some apple juice to help. Then around supper time she said "sit on potty"... and I said okay.... she goes "lets go" and ran to the bathroom. She sat there for close to 25 minutes. And we sang songs, played with some of her stickers... and at times she'd say "shhhhh" and so I'd be quiet and try not to look at her but I could tell that she was really trying to go poop. Well after around 25 minutes she looked up and said "all done"... and she stood up, turned around and had a look of fear on her face! I instantly started clapping and saying "yeah Olivia" and Olivia then looked at me and smiled and then realized that what was in there was a good thing and I just went on and on about how happy I was and that she was a "big girl". She hugged me tight and kept smiling. We wiped and then I dumped it into the toilet, I let Olivia flush it and told her to say good bye to the poopy...and she did. It was funny yet cute.
She then walked into her closet and pointed to her underwear...so we wore those. We then ventured to the Dollar Store and Ilet her pick out a prize...she picked out another pair of sunglasses, tinkerbell this time and a blue shovel. Last time we took her to the store to pick out a prize she picked out Princess and the Frog sunglasses. That was for sitting on the potty at daycare. We are really trying to keep positive for her and never let her going in her diaper be a bad thing...but just talk to her about big girls, and how princesses go on the big girl potty, grandma, nana, Paige...we really try to make her understand that it is okay!
I AM SUPER EXCITED FOR HER AND HOPE THIS CONTINUES... SUCH A LEVEL OF JOY CAME OVER ME YESTERDAY WHEN SHE FINALLY DID IT.... SO CONTINUET O PRAY FOR OLIVIA AND CONTINUED SUCCESS OF TRANSITIONING TO THE BIG GIRL POTTY!
On this weekend, I had a bag full of prizes for Olivia.... and I never thought I'd go through them all in 1 weekend! I had purchased, bubbles, a frizbee, Coloring Book, Sticker Book, Play-Doh and some little $1.00 prizes. I tried to keep the prizes small and cheap so that way it wasn't too expensive to get her to understand. But I would ask her and she would say no...but in a matter of a 1/2 hour later she would tell me that she had to go... I was so happy that weekend. She was consistently going 1 and 2 in the potty, wiping and flushing down the toilet. We'd celebrate and then get a prize. These pictures are from Sunday and she got her last prize of Play-doh... She kept cheering and clapping sayin "Big Girl potty" and she has been doing fantastic since. We've done underwear while at home this weekend and have had NO mistakes and will continue pull-ups for the week, go the long weekend in underwear and then try underwear at daycare after Memorial Day!
