Potty Trained!

I don't know why I didn't do this sooner! The princess was trained in 3 days! We used the bare bottom, three day method. The first day was great, besides being stuck in the house ALL day. There were no accidents. The rule was that we had to be confined to one area all day and the potty chair stayed in that area. Also, after she went to the potty I had to do a potty dance. She loved it for a while and then said, "No Mommy, don't do the dance." I guess I wasn't very good at this! There was a lot of Barney, Elmo and Dora watched that day. We did break to color and read books, but not much. The second day was the same as the first. We were allowed to go outside for one hour in the afternoon. She had an accident as soon as she got up that morning because she had worn panties over her diaper and did not want them to come off. Peed right in the living room floor! After that, things were going great. That is until we went outside. We had been playing for about thirty minutes and she said she wanted to go inside. The goal was to make it the whole hour, so I said we couldn't. Well, about five minutes later she climbed onto the swing set. Stood there and pooped right in the yard! I had to explain that we don't poo poo in the yard, only in the toilet. Her response, "Muffin poo poos in da ard." Of course! Makes perfect sense! The third day we were allowed to go outside once in the morning and we had to actually get in the car and go somewhere that afternoon for an hour. Our outing was down the street to Jill and Bill's. She did great! We were gone an hour and a half with no accidents! There have been a few here and there, but nothing to complain about! I am so proud of her! She did such a good job!!

Here she is on the potty chair

Thanks to uncle B for the redneck t-shirt. It says, "But DAD said it was o.k...PCB" PCB 09 baby!

So proud to finally wear Dora without a diaper! On a side note, I think she looks like me in this pic. Circa 1986

During our outing to Jill's, she promised to get Riley a treat if she poo pooed in the potty. There was a little fear of this. As soon as she did one day she looked up at me and said, "I need to call Jill. Where's my treat?" We called Jill that night and they had a full blown conversation about what the treat would be. She decided she wanted blue ice cream. Jill set the date for the next night at a local ice cream shoppe. They did not have blue, so she went with the cotton candy flavor and a fancy little cone. She loved it and Loves Jill and Bill! Thanks for being such great friends y'all!

Here she is with J Bird eating her cone

So happy that this is behind us!