We haven't been doing potty training for 143 days. It only feels like it.
Today marks two weeks, I guess. And I will venture to say we're like 99% there. She still sleeps in a diaper at night. I tried to let her take a nap without a diaper today but she kept using the excuse that she had to potty to stall taking a nap, so I put a diaper on her for her nap today.
Today was also the first day that I took her out in public without a diaper. I just stuffed the diaper bag with a few extra sets of clothes and panties and put the little potty in the back of the van, and we went to the park twice and to a library story time with no accidents! I was very impressed. Of course, a lot of times it was me saying, "Let's go pee pee now" and not her prompting me. That's okay, though. And she had an accident when we got home for who knows what reason. But I have been very impressed with her. I'm hoping she'll just get better and better at it and that eventually we can go to no diapers at all. I have a feeling that nights without diapers may be the hardest hurdle.
I'm sure you were wondering, so there it is. :-)
Monday, August 27, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Potty training, day 4
Today was sort of an off-and-on day. We had a doctor's appointment this morning, so we took a break and put on a diaper. Then we came home, and put her back in panties, and then it was out to lunch, so back in a diaper. I'm not brave enough to do the public stuff yet. Then when we came home it was time for her to nap so she was in a diaper for that. After her nap, I put her back in her panties and I just stopped setting the timer. Every so often I would ask her if she needed to go, and if she said no, I believed her. Then eventually even if she said no I would make her go, and she would usually pee in the potty. We only had one accident today and it was really silly. I was about to put her in a diaper for bedtime so I said, "Let's go pee-pee before we put your diaper on for bed." So she walked in the bathroom, and stood in front of the potty and just peed all in her panties and shorts. UGH! So silly. So I had to clean her up and the floor, too.
I think tomorrow I will take her pee-pee maybe every 30 minutes and see if she can tell me if she has to pee. That's the only way I think I will be able to tell if she's really getting the hang of knowing when she has to pee and holding it long enough to make it to the potty on time. Just may mean more accidents to clean up.... oh well....
I think tomorrow I will take her pee-pee maybe every 30 minutes and see if she can tell me if she has to pee. That's the only way I think I will be able to tell if she's really getting the hang of knowing when she has to pee and holding it long enough to make it to the potty on time. Just may mean more accidents to clean up.... oh well....
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Potty training, day 3
I promise these potty training updates won't last forever!
Today Lucy poo-pooed in the potty for the first time ever! I was so excited. She just said, "Poo-poo!" and we ran to the potty and she went and she was so excited. The things you get excited about as a parent... sheesh. haha.
I guess I will start tomorrow trying to stretch the times out even more. I suppose eventually you have to stop taking them to the potty every 10 minutes and just see if they can tell you when they have to go. That's the goal, anyway.
Today Lucy poo-pooed in the potty for the first time ever! I was so excited. She just said, "Poo-poo!" and we ran to the potty and she went and she was so excited. The things you get excited about as a parent... sheesh. haha.
I guess I will start tomorrow trying to stretch the times out even more. I suppose eventually you have to stop taking them to the potty every 10 minutes and just see if they can tell you when they have to go. That's the goal, anyway.
Potty training, day 2
Day two went so much better!
She only had one accident, and she did so well.
I am still taking her to the potty every 8-10 minutes, though, so I want to try to stretch that out longer if I can...
She only had one accident, and she did so well.
I am still taking her to the potty every 8-10 minutes, though, so I want to try to stretch that out longer if I can...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Potty training, day 1
I thought I would just jot down how things went yesterday (the first day we tried potty training) so I can come back and read this for posterity. I'm sure no one else is very interested. haha.
Our system is very simple: I bought some panties for her, and some M&M's and jellybeans. We've had a little potty for her for a while. I originally set a timer on my iPod for every 15 minutes, and I let her pick the ringtone she liked the most. She did really great at first. No accidents for the first few hours, and she even ran to the potty before the timer went off and took off her own panties and went pee-pee. Then I don't know what happened ... I even set the timer to go off every 7-8 minutes because she started having accidents. I don't know if she was too focused on playing but it seemed like every time she never made it until the timer went off. Then I had to put Ian down for a nap, which means I go nurse him in his room and lay him down. It usually takes me about 15-20 minutes, so honestly I expected to come back and she have had an accident. But she had peed in three different places and had pooped in her panties during that time. So after that I just put her in a diaper because it was naptime and I needed her to have a good, uninterrupted nap time for both my sanity and hers.
I also had a very complicated dinner I was making last night so after she got up from her nap I let her wear a diaper the rest of the day. Call me lazy, but I needed the break.
So that is how our first day went. Not the greatest, but I know she understands what to do, and I also realize it's the first day EVER in her life that she's been asked to pee-pee or poo-poo anywhere else but her diaper, so that's a big thing to get used to in just one day.
Our system is very simple: I bought some panties for her, and some M&M's and jellybeans. We've had a little potty for her for a while. I originally set a timer on my iPod for every 15 minutes, and I let her pick the ringtone she liked the most. She did really great at first. No accidents for the first few hours, and she even ran to the potty before the timer went off and took off her own panties and went pee-pee. Then I don't know what happened ... I even set the timer to go off every 7-8 minutes because she started having accidents. I don't know if she was too focused on playing but it seemed like every time she never made it until the timer went off. Then I had to put Ian down for a nap, which means I go nurse him in his room and lay him down. It usually takes me about 15-20 minutes, so honestly I expected to come back and she have had an accident. But she had peed in three different places and had pooped in her panties during that time. So after that I just put her in a diaper because it was naptime and I needed her to have a good, uninterrupted nap time for both my sanity and hers.
I also had a very complicated dinner I was making last night so after she got up from her nap I let her wear a diaper the rest of the day. Call me lazy, but I needed the break.
So that is how our first day went. Not the greatest, but I know she understands what to do, and I also realize it's the first day EVER in her life that she's been asked to pee-pee or poo-poo anywhere else but her diaper, so that's a big thing to get used to in just one day.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Six month follow up visit with Dr. Lambert
We went in today for Lucy's six month eye visit. As usual, it takes a lot of work to get there and keep both kids happy while we're there, for what seems to be not a lot of information, but I'm used to it by now.
They had, and always have had, a hard time getting Lucy to look at things they want her to look at so they can test her eyes. First, the assisting doctor tried to put a piece of tape over Lucy's eye (instead of one of those black eye cover things they use at the grown up eye doctor...) and Lucy was NOT having it. Imagine this scenario: you put a bunch of sticky tape over a two-year-old's eye, then ask her to look at a small TV monitor all the way across the room with a small picture on it and then seem disappointed when she neither knows what the picture is or even cares where the TV is -- all she wants to do it get that tape off her eye! haha. So we moved on to the black eye cover thing, but that didn't work any better. All this time, Ian is sitting on a blanket on the floor of the room, crawling away every minute and trying to grab the paper off the printer, etc. LOL. They ended up trying to turn on a movie for her to look at (she could care less) and then they brought in another nurse to try to do silly dances for Lucy to look at. I guess they got what they wanted (finally!) and Dr. Lambert took a look at her and said everything looked great. Then they had to dilate her eyes, and we had to go out and wait in the waiting room until the drops worked. Then they had to try to get her to look into this machine so they could measure her eyes (that tactic barely worked!) Dr. Lambert looked at her once again, then we were on our way home, only 2 hours after we arrived. Poor Ian. He was so tired because it was during his nap time. He got passed from doctors and nurses to try to make him happy while I helped them try to make Lucy do what they wanted her to do. I just realized today that getting a two year old to do anything they don't want to do at the doctor's office is nearly impossible, especially when it involves looking at something. I can hold her down or hold her head all I want, but I cannot physically make her look at something.
It's over, and we don't have to do it again for a year, so hopefully she will be much more compliant and Ian will definitely stay home next year, even though he will be in a very different state next year, I'm sure.
I will say that it was very nice of all the doctors and nurses to sense my inability to deal with both Lucy and Ian at the same time and offer to hold him instead of just leaving me in a lurch!
They had, and always have had, a hard time getting Lucy to look at things they want her to look at so they can test her eyes. First, the assisting doctor tried to put a piece of tape over Lucy's eye (instead of one of those black eye cover things they use at the grown up eye doctor...) and Lucy was NOT having it. Imagine this scenario: you put a bunch of sticky tape over a two-year-old's eye, then ask her to look at a small TV monitor all the way across the room with a small picture on it and then seem disappointed when she neither knows what the picture is or even cares where the TV is -- all she wants to do it get that tape off her eye! haha. So we moved on to the black eye cover thing, but that didn't work any better. All this time, Ian is sitting on a blanket on the floor of the room, crawling away every minute and trying to grab the paper off the printer, etc. LOL. They ended up trying to turn on a movie for her to look at (she could care less) and then they brought in another nurse to try to do silly dances for Lucy to look at. I guess they got what they wanted (finally!) and Dr. Lambert took a look at her and said everything looked great. Then they had to dilate her eyes, and we had to go out and wait in the waiting room until the drops worked. Then they had to try to get her to look into this machine so they could measure her eyes (that tactic barely worked!) Dr. Lambert looked at her once again, then we were on our way home, only 2 hours after we arrived. Poor Ian. He was so tired because it was during his nap time. He got passed from doctors and nurses to try to make him happy while I helped them try to make Lucy do what they wanted her to do. I just realized today that getting a two year old to do anything they don't want to do at the doctor's office is nearly impossible, especially when it involves looking at something. I can hold her down or hold her head all I want, but I cannot physically make her look at something.
It's over, and we don't have to do it again for a year, so hopefully she will be much more compliant and Ian will definitely stay home next year, even though he will be in a very different state next year, I'm sure.
I will say that it was very nice of all the doctors and nurses to sense my inability to deal with both Lucy and Ian at the same time and offer to hold him instead of just leaving me in a lurch!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Stopping time
Dear Lucy,
Today you are 24 months and 24 days old. I went to an open house for a Parent's Morning Out/preschool type thing to see if we were interested in enrolling you in the fall. I know it was just for a one day a week type thing, but it made me feel like you were very grown up already and I was looking at schools, etc. Sometimes I feel like time is rushing past me and that you will be five and ten and twenty-one before I know it. Other days it feels like you can't grow up fast enough because I have so many exciting things I want to do with you when you are old enough. But just for today, just for now, here are some random tidbits about you that I love so much and that make me want to stop time.
The way you slip your little hand into mine while we pray at bedtime.
How you get SO excited to rush into Ian's room the very second you hear him wake up.
I'm amazed at how you connect things we've talked about and some things we've never really discussed ... like how the fire trucks on Ian's onesie are the same ones you see occasionally and you knew they made the same siren sound, which you are great at demonstrating.
I love how you persist in saying "hold you" when you want to be held, even though we always tell you it's "hold me".
How you trust me and you like to walk with me and hold my hand. Even when Mommy can't find the right building and I make you walk all over creation, you sweetly just held my hand and walked beside me like such a big girl with no complaints.
You have such a caring heart, my baby girl. You get very concerned when other babies or kids cry, especially Ian. Likewise you love to see other babies and kids smile, and you really just love babies.
You are funny and you love to share. You are observant and exuberant. You love to read and you love to count things (except you only know "1, 2..." so you just say "1, 2, 1, 2" over and over). I'm so happy you're mine, Lucy Frances, and I know your Daddy would say the same thing.
I love you,
Mommy
Today you are 24 months and 24 days old. I went to an open house for a Parent's Morning Out/preschool type thing to see if we were interested in enrolling you in the fall. I know it was just for a one day a week type thing, but it made me feel like you were very grown up already and I was looking at schools, etc. Sometimes I feel like time is rushing past me and that you will be five and ten and twenty-one before I know it. Other days it feels like you can't grow up fast enough because I have so many exciting things I want to do with you when you are old enough. But just for today, just for now, here are some random tidbits about you that I love so much and that make me want to stop time.
The way you slip your little hand into mine while we pray at bedtime.
How you get SO excited to rush into Ian's room the very second you hear him wake up.
I'm amazed at how you connect things we've talked about and some things we've never really discussed ... like how the fire trucks on Ian's onesie are the same ones you see occasionally and you knew they made the same siren sound, which you are great at demonstrating.
I love how you persist in saying "hold you" when you want to be held, even though we always tell you it's "hold me".
How you trust me and you like to walk with me and hold my hand. Even when Mommy can't find the right building and I make you walk all over creation, you sweetly just held my hand and walked beside me like such a big girl with no complaints.
You have such a caring heart, my baby girl. You get very concerned when other babies or kids cry, especially Ian. Likewise you love to see other babies and kids smile, and you really just love babies.
You are funny and you love to share. You are observant and exuberant. You love to read and you love to count things (except you only know "1, 2..." so you just say "1, 2, 1, 2" over and over). I'm so happy you're mine, Lucy Frances, and I know your Daddy would say the same thing.
I love you,
Mommy
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