Potty Training
July 26, 2011
Today marks one week of potty training Tiny. Even with all the craziness going on around here, she is doing amazing. We have had two different sets of visitors and my sister moved in with us last week. She is completely potty trained while at home, aside from at night. She sleeps deeply and for about 11-13 hours at night, so I think we still have a little more work to do before that happens.
We started last Monday night by telling Tiny that she was going to bed, still like a baby wearing a diaper, but when she woke up she would be a big girl and she was giving all her diapers to Teeny. We explained all about the potty (we have been talking about it for months) and we read "Once Upon a Potty" as our bedtime story. The next morning as soon as she woke up I took off her pjs and put her right on the potty. She went! We sang, danced, celebrated, and ate an m&m. We were off to a good start. I showed her her Dora, Tinkerbell, Princess, and flower underwear and let her pick out a pair to wear. We talked about how Tinkerbelle wanted to stay dry all day and if she had to potty to just tell mommy and we would go on the potty. We put a Dora seat on the big potty upstairs in her bedroom, and put a potty chair in the living room where we do most of our playing. Every time she would go we would quietly clean it up and put her on the potty even if she was done. If even a drop made it into the potty she would get an m&m, if she told us she needed to sit she got an m&m and if she sat and pottied she got 2 (4 or 5 for a poop).
By the second day she would yell and run to the potty while going, an improvement from just going and telling us as she was peeing on the floor. By day three, she was pretty much potty trained at home. Now a week later she is doing amazing. We are so proud! And it has been relatively painless. :)
Today we went to the $1 movie at Regal and she told me twice that she needed to potty so out we went, panties were dry both time and she sat for a bit and told me she was all done. As soon as we got home, she ran to her potty, undressed, and went!
We are so proud of our Tiny girl!
We started last Monday night by telling Tiny that she was going to bed, still like a baby wearing a diaper, but when she woke up she would be a big girl and she was giving all her diapers to Teeny. We explained all about the potty (we have been talking about it for months) and we read "Once Upon a Potty" as our bedtime story. The next morning as soon as she woke up I took off her pjs and put her right on the potty. She went! We sang, danced, celebrated, and ate an m&m. We were off to a good start. I showed her her Dora, Tinkerbell, Princess, and flower underwear and let her pick out a pair to wear. We talked about how Tinkerbelle wanted to stay dry all day and if she had to potty to just tell mommy and we would go on the potty. We put a Dora seat on the big potty upstairs in her bedroom, and put a potty chair in the living room where we do most of our playing. Every time she would go we would quietly clean it up and put her on the potty even if she was done. If even a drop made it into the potty she would get an m&m, if she told us she needed to sit she got an m&m and if she sat and pottied she got 2 (4 or 5 for a poop).
By the second day she would yell and run to the potty while going, an improvement from just going and telling us as she was peeing on the floor. By day three, she was pretty much potty trained at home. Now a week later she is doing amazing. We are so proud! And it has been relatively painless. :)
Today we went to the $1 movie at Regal and she told me twice that she needed to potty so out we went, panties were dry both time and she sat for a bit and told me she was all done. As soon as we got home, she ran to her potty, undressed, and went!
We are so proud of our Tiny girl!
Posted by Kim Colgrove. Posted In : Family
