Evangeline's instances of visiting the little princess potty have increased. Up to this point we have kept her in diapers and made the potty available in our most highly trafficked area. Occasionally, she would decide to use it. Then last night we had a great talk before she went to bed.
A talk about Big Girls and panties and the potty. I asked her if she would like to only wear panties from now on and she said yes. So, this morning, bright and early I took off her diaper and put on some hot pink panties.
Side Note: This always a kind of funny step for me, since you have never seen your little person and their cute little tushie in panties before and it's really cute.
Well, this morning has been a success so far. Around 9:00 AM she began to pee-pee on the floor, realized her mistake and ran to the little potty, pulled down her panties and finished the pee-pee she had started. Yes, this is progress.
Ella potty trained so easily, that sometimes other Mommies ask me for tips. Let me say this...I don't really know what I am doing. I pretty much lucked out. There are only a few things that remain constant in our Potty Training routine.
1. We let each child decorate their own potty. When it was time for Ella we bought a really inexpensive potty and then bought some Dollar Store window clings. We made a big production about her decorating her potty with her Disney Princess window clings and it seemed very effective in making her feel ownership. The colorful array of potty seats pictured above are a whopping $3.99 at Ikea and can easily be decorated. We plan on getting one for each floor of the house during Eva's training.
2. We never do Pull-Ups. Besides being expensive, I have heard from many Mommies that kids are way too smart for these. They know it's a glorified diaper and that they can fill it like they would a diaper. When we feel our kids are truly ready, we ditch the diapers, put on panties and never look back.
A talk about Big Girls and panties and the potty. I asked her if she would like to only wear panties from now on and she said yes. So, this morning, bright and early I took off her diaper and put on some hot pink panties.
Side Note: This always a kind of funny step for me, since you have never seen your little person and their cute little tushie in panties before and it's really cute.
Well, this morning has been a success so far. Around 9:00 AM she began to pee-pee on the floor, realized her mistake and ran to the little potty, pulled down her panties and finished the pee-pee she had started. Yes, this is progress.
Ella potty trained so easily, that sometimes other Mommies ask me for tips. Let me say this...I don't really know what I am doing. I pretty much lucked out. There are only a few things that remain constant in our Potty Training routine.
1. We let each child decorate their own potty. When it was time for Ella we bought a really inexpensive potty and then bought some Dollar Store window clings. We made a big production about her decorating her potty with her Disney Princess window clings and it seemed very effective in making her feel ownership. The colorful array of potty seats pictured above are a whopping $3.99 at Ikea and can easily be decorated. We plan on getting one for each floor of the house during Eva's training.
2. We never do Pull-Ups. Besides being expensive, I have heard from many Mommies that kids are way too smart for these. They know it's a glorified diaper and that they can fill it like they would a diaper. When we feel our kids are truly ready, we ditch the diapers, put on panties and never look back.
3. We always sing the Potty song. And do other things like it. The first time the child uses the potty on their own we call everyone we know, hoot, holler, eat treats and sing the official Ahern Potty Song (which I made up when Ella was training and which sounds like a Football Team fight song).
That's all I've got. I always feel freaked out, un-prepared and down right afraid when we start this process. But when it works, like today, I am giddy...truly and pathetically giddy.
Here's to Princess panties,
bathroom step stools
and no more poopy diapers.
9 comments:
I love the idea of buying an inexpensive potty and letting them decorate it! That NEVER occurred to me!
I also agree with the pull-ups thing. They're designed to wick away moisture, so why WOULDN't a potty-training kid fill it up? LOL! We did use pull-ups for three nights because we were camping in the middle of potty training Tanner (the BEST time to potty train for boys! LOL!) but I didn't want to deal with sopping wet sleeping bags.
CONGRATS to you and Ella! Yay for princess panties! :)
Yay for Evangeline! How exciting for her.
I got pretty lucky with my daughter when she was potty training. With my son I started putting him on a potty at two months after reading a book called 'Diaper Free Baby'. I figured I had nothing to lose and everything to gain by giving it a try. He just turned 2 years old and he's completely potty trained!
I'm with you though, we always do positive reenforcement and use underpants. We did Pull-ups at night and for long road trips but that was it.
I love the potties in the picture :-)
I am 100% with you on the NO Pull-ups rule! I did that with my girl and it totally worked! She potty trained and never had accidents, even at night. She was ready.
Best of luck during the time with Eva!
Hooray for potty training!
Congrats! I hope that it goes so well for you and I totally know what you mean about the cute tush in the undies!
YEA for EVA. (and you) and no poopy diapers. Jackson wasn't trained until 3 1/2 and Marcus is going down that say road--no interest. BOYS... who needs 'em.
Don't you love having no kids in diapers. Yeah.
Go Evangeline!! You rock, girl!
How exciting! I swear by the movie, Potty Power. It works awesome! I rented it from the libary and then just had to get it from amazon. My daughter wore that thing out! Just bought a new copy for my son who should I should be starting soon.....
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