Isa's Mom

I asked her this morning if she wanted to use the potty. She, with tremendous gusto, said NO! We put on her "underwear" before heading to school, and again I asked her to go to the potty and I received the same response. During our car ride to school, I told her then when she is at school and needs to go potty, she can quickly ask Ms. Stephanie or Ms. Ashley and she'll get to use the potty there. She responded, "Toilet mommy, toilet school." Let's see what happens! Well she never did end up making it to the potty or should I say toilet at school. Just a wet Pull-Ups training pant. **** Ah!!!! So much relief today! Isa has been so anti-potty lately. She kicks it and refuses to ever sit on there. Enter Megan and Kinsey! My good friend, Megan, and her 2 year old daughter, Kinsey, came to the rescue today! Kinsey is about 8 weeks ahead of Isa in potty training. I knew that if Isa saw her best buddy using the potty today, there would be a chance that she would change her sentiments on the poor little toilet! Kinsey came over for a playdate and within the 1st hour Megan had her sitting on Isa's potty going pee pee! We, and especially Isa, were SOOOO excited for Kinsey. We made such a show about it! As soon as Kinsey got up, Isa demanded that it was her turn! I also spent quite a bit of time picking Megan's brain today about potty training. What I'm looking for is what to and what not to do. 1st off Megan brought me the pee pee doll! I'm so excited. This is the dolly that she and her siblings have used to potty training. The doll comes with her own bottle and potty. Next week Isa will meet the dolly, feed her water from the bottle and teach her how to use the potty. I can't wait. Megan also suggested that I try to reward Isa more often for dry underwear rather than just pee pee in the potty. She also mentioned that I may want to think about rewarding Isa with yummy drinks so to encourage future pee pee on the day I do the intense training with the doll. Great idea! **** So my mom has been encouraging me to get Isa to sit and stay on the potty for an extended period of time. This is in the hopes that if she sits there long enough, she'll pee, and be happy! Well, this morning I got her to sit, I brought her breakfast , and put plenty of toys within reach…instead of breakfast in bed, she had breakfast on the potty. Ha ha! After about 10 minutes of her morning potty sitting experience, I decided to hit the potty myself. She was not in my line of sight for no more than 5 minutes when I began hearing her sort of whine or something. I grew concerned and quickly got up and headed to the family room. Well, I don't think I was expecting to find Isa standing up, about 2 feet away from her potty saying, "Poo floor!" She had apparently stood up and pooped in not 1, not 2, but in 5 different areas of the area rug in the family room! She seemed so upset. I, obviously, cleaned up the poo poo and told her how next time she needs to sit on the potty when she needs to go poo poo, just like Mommy. She really seemed to be embarrassed with what had happened. I think that in a way it was a positive potty training thing; it was good for her to feel that poo-pooing on the floor isn't right. **** Today I went out to purchase some more rewards for the big potty training day next week! I have tons of farm animals, stickers, books and more. All I have left to get is the sugary drink and I was thinking of getting popsicles. I don't think she has ever had one and I figured since it's frozen "juice" it will help promote more pee-pee. **** She sat on her potty this morning during breakfast time. Non eventful (no pee pee) but she did sit. After a morning of errands, with her underwear on, we came back home to see that her underwear was still dry!! At that point of excitement I tried to get her to sit on the potty before nap time. She wanted nothing to do with it. I think she was already very tired. A few hours later she woke up from her nap. I could quickly see that her underwear had remained dry for the 2 hour nap time. Excitingly I had her sit on the potty, explaining that mommy always goes potty right after she wakes up. Meanwhile I went into the kitchen to get her leche con chocolate (chocolate milk) ready. When I returned I noticed that her potty seat appeared to have some water drops. Confused, I took a closer look and saw that she had gone pee pee!! I was floored. She had actually gone pee pee in the potty!!! Woo Hoo! Dances and parties were in ordered. We emptied the pee pee in the toilet, wiped with toilet paper and flushed! Tomorrow is the big day! **** So today was the BIG DAY! We spent nearly the entire morning on the floor in front of the bathroom with her potty, the potty doll, the potty doll's potty, and TONS of incentives! It actually went much better than I had expected. She LOVED feeding the dolly and having the dolly go pee pee. I gave Isa about a dozen "shots" of soda for keeping her own pants dry. It worked in making her have to pee all morning. The downside was that she peed in her underwear rather than the potty. I was exhausted by the end of the morning but she did get the routine of pee pee after eating/drinking in place. **** So I'm still exhausted! I approached today positively. We spent the better part of the morning outside painting and waiting for pee pee to come out ! We had tons of accidents but lots of success too! It is just so much more manageable outside than inside.