Potty Time! Potty Time! Excellent!

I think it's safe to say that Hailey is now potty trained! She is on day 16 of potty training and has been in big girl panties for 4 days now! WOOT! She has had only 1 accident in them and she was on the way to the bathroom. I am so happy, the thought of saying goodbye to diapers for good, yay! She is doing really well, she knows when she has to go now, so she runs to the potty and goes every time now.

We told her once she was going to the potty all the time and not wearing diapers anymore, she could get a big present....so guess its about time to ante up lol. She has been talking about pony's and pony castles etc so I guess we will just take her to the store and let her pick something out for her congratulations prize.

I'll update again soon on more Potty Training Adventures!

Potty Training Adventures Part 2

Well here it is, Dec 9, Day 10 of Potty Training. We have had a couple of accidents here and there, nothing major though. I feel like she's finally getting the hang of it and realizing when she has to go, as she ran several times today and went. So today we went to Target to buy her some big girl panties, even though we have a ton in the house already lol. I felt it was important for her to go pick some out just for her. So she decided to choose, Elmo/Zoe, Tinkerbell, Hello Kitty and Sleeping Beauty. So tomorrow starts Day 1 of trying to wear big girl panties, or so I hope!

She's been doing fairly well waking up dry, not every day by any means but I am impressed. I have been trying to get her to understand when you get up, the first thing you do is go to the bathroom. So we'll see how it goes in the morning. I would love to move past this diaper stage atleast for day time anyways. We do the reward thing for going right now, m&m's (1 for each yr of age) and I do think that helped her get going. I do have to admit though unless she asks for them I do not dole them out. Is that bad? I figure eventually they will stop anyways so why push for her to take them unless she asks.

Stay tuned for more Potty Training Adventures!

Potty Training Adventures

Well I needed to add a bragging post in here about Hailey. She is 3 yrs and 9 months old so yes she's essentially 3 months (almost to the day 3/4 is her bday) of turning 4 and we have been struggling with Potty Training.

Well a couple days ago, on Nov 30 she decided she needed to go potty. So we went with it and she managed to stay dry all day and not one time had an accident. She went to bed and wok eup dry yesterday morning. I tried to get her to go potty but she said she didn't have to go, so I figured ok. Well she had breakfast and a whole glass of milk but unfortunately she did wet her diaper. I didn't' fuss, just told her it was ok and got a new one and told her the rest of the day she needed to go potty. No problem, she stayed dry ALL day yesterday and woke up dry this morning. Whhoohooo! So a few mins after she got up I had her go and she did and we've been dry all day today as well. So day 3 and only 1 accident, I am silently saying a prayer that it's finally clicked!

I was going to wait til Jan to really start trying to get her going consistently due to our trip to Disney later this month. However since she's doing so well, I am not going to tell her no and say let's wait. I hope that soon our diaper days will be behind us!

Wish us luck!

Potty Time! Potty Time! Excellent!

Well over the last week the little one has been telling us she needed to go potty and almost every single time she sits she goes! Not just peeing either! WHOOHOOOO how bad is it to get excited over peeing and pooping?? LOL if you have kids you know all to well that it is Exciting! No bribes yet either, no candy for going, no toys etc. She's so cute, she'll say I gotta go potty and run to the bathroom and wait on you to get the little potty seat ready and she says "ok you go away now'. Privacy already?? lol so I tell her to call me when she's done and she does and as soon as she goes she yells "Mommy I am doing it!" hehe to cute.

Now if we weren't trying to get our house on the market in the next week I would totally go full force with her...but I can't be cleaning up accidents all day long right now! Sooo hopefully the house will sell fast and we get to move soon!

So we will continue to ask her to go and let her go and hopefully soon be diaper free! I am counting the down the days!

Hair Cuts & Potty Training

That's been the fun of my life the couple of days..ok not really fun but that's the life of a mom! So my oldest daughter has had LONG hair forever now, we try to cut it at the beginning of summer so she doesn't get too hot. Well I didn't get to it this yr since we went to Hawaii as soon as school was over and then just been busy, you know excuse after excuse. That's me. She kept begging to have it done before school starts.... so I finally succumbed to the peer pressure LOL I chopped it off a couple nights ago and it's not barely at her shoulders...sigh... it was almost to her waist, I cut at least 8 or so inches off. I was going to go for 10 to donate but it would have required much much shorter and I wasn't ready for that! She's happy with it though she claims it is not as short as she would like. UM hello you are not quite 8 yet, I think you'll be happy with what you have! Argghh can't wait til the teen yrs!

So on to my youngest, who is now 3.5 yrs and has really not shown to much interest in going potty. Oh sure there are kids who are potty trained at 2.5, some at 3 and so on but I learned with the 1st one not to push or rush them. It only backfires and leaves everyone frustrated! She has gone a couple times here and there in the last few months and we are always sure to praise her for going but no real interest on a daily basis. So yesterday I was getting ready to start dinner and hubby was working with Jess on something on the computer, we hear Hailey saying something from the bathroom. I thought for sure she was just washing her hands, so I am yelling at her what did you say?? "Mom, I am going potty" she says. What??? LOL so I go rushing in there to find her butt naked sitting on the big potty (she even put the insert in!) and she had went potty! I was shocked LOL but of course we did the big girl dance and all that fun stuff. Did she ask to go again last night or tell us??? Nope LOL least I know she's starting to get it, now I look forward to diaper free days!!!