
Over the course of the last few weeks I have heard myself say "oh Abigail just go in your diaper" numerous times when she told me she had to go potty when we were out and about. Each time I said it I knew it was not the right thing to say but I seriously didn't think she was ready to actually potty train. But while we were in Florida Abigail spent a lot of time naked since we were constantly swimming or going to the beach and I told Abigail that was fine as long as she tried to pee in the potty....and what do you know, she ended up using the potty A LOT while in Florida. So when we got home she continued to go potty quite often at home and I was just kind of following her lead still putting diapers on her whenever we left the house. Then the other day while we were at "lunch bunch" at the gymnastics gym Abigail asked to go potty and actually went potty twice in one hour. Soooo with some advice from some friends I decided to give potty-training a trial run...knowing it may or may not work considering her age. So Abigail has been in big girl underwear since Wednesday morning. Day one went great, we went to music class, went potty three times while there and had a pretty good day with just a couple accidents. Thursday we hosted playgroup and didn't have the best morning, I think there was just too much going on. I also went out and I let Abigail pick out a big bag of candy as rewards and that seems to be motivating her (since she's only had candy like twice in her whole life!) She was dry all morning and we even went to a friends house all morning for playgroup. Sooooo we'll see I guess....I don't want to push her but she has been pretty into it so far and I am all for not having two kids in diapers come January!
2 comments:
Yay for Abigail :) I wish Lucy would show some interest!
We're going through a similar experience with our little one (who I also want out of diapers before the next one comes in Feb.) - you can read about it here http://clevermamas.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-potty-time.html
I wish you and your daughter well!
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