It's Potty Time

Leah is finally (mostly) potty trained!!!  We have had her little potty for about a year now.  We have sort of tried to get her interested, and she peed in it a few random times when we really prompted her. But then for several months she had no interest, and even told us that she did not want to go in her potty.  Then in the last few months, she has seen some of her friends start to use the potty and we have talked about it more. And during the last few weeks, we would put on big girl underwear for a few hours sometimes when we were home.  And so we decided that this week, while my mom was on break from work and she could help me, we would full on start the potty training process!  Meaning, NO more diapers (just pull ups during nap and nighttime)!! 

Leah LOVES this video. I think it really helped her. We have watched it several times the last few days :)

The first day she literally threw a fit when I put on her underwear. But then we put on her Elmo's Potty video and she relaxed a little.  Then that whole day she would be super dramatic and sometimes even cry and not want to sit on her potty. She would say "Hold my haaaaaaands!!!!"  We bribed her with treats and cartoons and new toys with a little success. When she finally went pee, she looked sooooo happy and said "I'm doing it!"  I put together a potty chart with 10 boxes and told her that each time she went potty she got a sticker, and once she got to 10 stickers, we would take her to the mall to ride on the carousel (her favorite thing EVER). She got super excited about that and she loved putting each sticker she earned on her chart.

So the first day she spent a LOT of time just sitting on it. :-)

The second day started out the same, she got nervous when I took off her pull ups in the morning.  After the first successful pee that day we got her dressed to go play outside. Well I think since that was the first time she had pants, socks, shoes on over underwear, she forgot and had an accident in them.  But she didn't get too upset so that was good.  And that has been her only accident thus far!

By the second day after nap, she was on a roll!  No more drama at all! She would play like normal and then go right to her potty when she had to go!  Every time of course saying "I'm doing it!" :-)

So proud of herself! :)

She got her 10 stickers in just 2 days!  So of course we had to take her to the carousel this morning first thing!  I was nervous about going out of the house somewhere since this whole thing was so new and she has only used her little potty.  Our friends were visiting from CA so they wanted to meet us at the mall.  We put Leah in pull ups just in case but told her to still tell us if she needed to go.  With all the excitement to ride the carousel and see her friend Cohen, we kind of assumed she was probably peeing in her pull ups during our mall trip. Especially since we were there a few hours, walking around and going to lunch.

With her token to ride the carousel!

We let her ride it 3 times since it was her special reward :)

Then we got a huge surprise when during lunch at Red Robin, Leah says, "Mommy, I have to go potty!". So I got up and we rushed into the bathroom. I got a seat cover on as fast as I could (ewwww public bathrooms!) and put her up and she peed!!!!!  And her pull ups were dry!!!!!!  I was in shock and SO PROUD of her!!  Not even 3 days and she got it!!!!!  Well still no poop yet, but one step at a time! :-)

Anyway, sorry if this a TMI post for you non parents out there but we want to document these events (for Leah to look back and get embarrassed by one day, haha!) And a BIG thanks to my mom who was here for two full days and helped me with Carter and brought us lunch and helped encourage Leah!!!! 

 *I finished this post during Leah's nap today and a little after she woke up, she pooped in the potty! All by herself with no fuss whatsoever!!  Like it was no big deal!  So proud of her!!!*