So, this weekend was the weekend that I had planned to potty train Ahnie for a while now. It was a 3 day weekend and we didn't have much going on. When we potty trained Ayden I had used this approach http://www.3daypottytraining.com/. The idea of the 3 day potty training approach is where you start talking about going potty in the potty a few weeks ahead of time! Start planning, talking and buying things just for your child! Buy lots of juice boxes, special snacks, food with extra fiber (to help with #2) and let them go out and pick out some special underware (lots of underware! They recommend 16-20 pairs I think). We also picked out special stickers and M&M's. Then you are supposed to throw away all your diapers the morning of the 1st day during a special breakfast then put on underware and a shirt. Constantly ask your child if they are dry (and praise them that they are), remind them to tell you when they need to go potty, and if they start to go you run them quickly to the potty so hopefully they can finish in there. The child never leaves your sight and you are constantly praising your child! The idea is they have lots of accidents the first day less the 2nd and hopefully none the 3rd day. This is a e-book that you buy and after you buy it you can go on and get help from the author along with a guaruntee.
We had to try this 2 times with AJ and I remember the first time being so tired at naptime and by the second day AJ was at the door saying "I go outside" and me crying to Brett on the couch saying I want to go outside too!! He was clearly not ready after having something like 12 accidents on the first day... I don't remember but the 2nd day was not much better and I think by the 3rd day we got our diapers back out and said he would try again later. Then we tried again last winter and it was much better! He was potty trained with peeing by the 3 day and it took a few months before we didn't have any more poopy accidents but we got through it.
So, thinking about potty training Ahnie started back in probably October. My parents were here watching AJ and Ahnie while I was at work and when I got home my mom informed me that Ahnie had gone poopy on the potty twice that morning! I remember looking at my mom thinking "are you kidding me we are trying to pack get moved, find a new house and now your telling me she is ready to potty train" haha I was excited but a little overwhelmed (which I think discribed myself most of this fall!). So after that we got out our little potty and if she asked to use it we would sit on it. Very rarely did she actually go but it was a fun game. Since Christmas break and moving into our new home she became more interested in sitting on the potty and was actually going sometimes. I decided then that MLK weekend might be a great weekend to do the 3 day potty training. We started getting ready and started buying all of our goodies! The weekend before Ahnie got done eating breakfast and quick said potty so we sat on the potty and she went! Then we put a diaper back on ran some errands got home played then ate lunch. After lunch she said potty so we ran to the potty again. I took off her DRY daiper and she went again. This definally affirmed that I need to do this! Then this past week leading up to our big weekend she would randomly tell me she needed to go potty and she would go!
So, Saturday was the day! We had talked a lot about going potty on the potty and at breakfast we talked about putting underware on. When we got done we went to the bathroom sat on the potty and she went and we put some Dora underware on. All morning we kept asking if Dora was dry and she was! We went potty 4 times before naps and didn't have an accident! One thing I remember AJ stuggling with was going potty a little bit very often which they can do in diapers and its not a big deal. Ahnie would not go potty any closer than 1 hour between. I could tell she had really had that down which was huge! At naps we put on a pull up (which the 3 day potty training says is a no no but we do it at naps and bedtime!) and when she woke up she was crying potty and I went and scooped her up and she had a big wet warm pull up! Shoot we missed it! But I don't count it as an accident if she was sleeping. We switched to underware and went on with our day. She kept doing great! She really started to get tired before dinner so we ate quick. Then we sat on the potty, she tried to poop on her own and a little came out! We were all so excited!!! We put underware back on and I came into the toy room to her crouched down on the ground and she wouldn't stand up... Shoot she had her 1st accident about 10 minutes before I was going to put her to bed!
Sunday, she woke up and Brett went in to get her and she had already pooped... So, the rest of the day was pretty easy. No accidents and she was telling us when we needed to go! She really did a great job all day and was starting to learn she got M&M's every time she went potty.
This morning went very well we woke up and went potty right away. All morning was great and went like the last two days until right before lunch. She came over to me said poo poo and squated down. I tried to get her to the potty but we didn't make it. Then after naps I thought I had a doctors apt that we were going to meet Brett at. Right before we got there I remembered that it was on the 28th and today was only the 21st. So we ran to Toy R Us by myself because I wanted to trade in a carseat. I then thougth I should let her pick something out for doing a great job. I knew I was getting myself in trouble and when we were playing with the leapster tablets she started crying say potty. Her first real pee accident and she was not happy. We ran to the bathroom got cleaned up and headed home. We later went to the OP and no accidents there! So in 3 days we had 3 accidents only 1 being a pee accident. I will call that pretty good!
Ahnie was so proud of herself though all of it! Some of the things I want to remember is her asking us if we were dry everytime we would ask her! And how excited she would get when she got to pick out her own M&M or sticker. She would change her mind about 10 times and would get made if you pushed her to just pick one! I would definally say any method I would have used would have worked for Ahnie just because I think she was so ready but I would also recommend the 3 day potty training because it did work for AJ and he was a much harder case.
I am so proud of my little girl! She is not a baby anymore!!!! Good thing we have one more on the way or else I would be pretty sad :)
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