Friday, August 17, 2007

Three Days...

...of wearing undies for Flower and only one accident! Yay! She's even made it through three afternoon naps! We had to change things up a bit. She was doing quite well at home but not so well in public which is understandable. We were thrilled when, at our Madison reunion in Glen's Ferry, she went all day, with all the excitement around, with no accidents. Imagine our surprise when, the second we walked in the door, she stood there and pee'd her pants. Arrgg. She had just gone 40 minutes before! Ever since then she has struggled and it's more work for us so admittedly, we got lazy. Well, this week I decided to try something new. As much as I hate to use candy as a reward, I'm going to do what works! This little box of
has done the trick! The girl loves candy! Now she only gets candy, of any kind, after she's gone potty in the toilet. We have it sitting near her potty so she'll look up and see it throughout the day and ask for some and then we remind her it's only after potty. She then will sit down and go. She gets one Sugar Baby when we ask her to sit and two when she sits on her own. It's working great so far! Thankfully we've had the poop thing down for about 4 months, she just has difficulty realizing, before it's too late, that she has to pee. She also still wears diapers at night. Yesterday we attempted to put the ring of her potty on the big toilet and turn the seat into a stool, one of the ways it can be used. She tried it once but I think for all our sake, we'll keep the potty on the floor for now! I just don't foresee her having enough control to hold it as long as it took her to climb up there and try and keep her balance! :)
Miss Thing has also been wearing lots of dresses because it sure makes a difference if she doesn't have to try to get pants down too!

2 comments:

sara :) said...

Please come potty train Madeline. She's driving me crazy and I'm sick of buying diapers!

Yay for Flower! Such a great feeling to have the potty training done!

ang :o) said...

I don't think we're in the clear yet but at this point I will use whatever motivation will work with her! Using only one cloth diaper per day rather then several meas less time for me rinsing at the sink and one less load of laundry!

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