Potty Training Day 4 - Right on.

Well, I have to say: my Monster is amazing. She mastered this potty thing sooooo fast. I mean, she actually got it down. I am way proud of this kid - for pooping, for peeing - if there was ever anything odd to be proud of your kid for, I guess that's it.

That's all tonight. We had a late one, and now I'm off to bed. I can't function any longer. Have a good night all! <3

Potty Training Day 3 - Road to success.

Well, hello, ladies and gents.
I did not keep a record of our goings on today. We moved out of the office, so keeping track was a little more difficult. I am happy to announce that Monster is doing amazing at this whole going to the bathroom business.

She stayed dry for the night, last night. She went in the potty first thing around 8:15 this morning. She then didn't go until right before we left to go visit her aunties and cousins. The trip there is 40 minutes (give or take a few), and she was dry the whole way there. When we got to my parents house, she went to the potty right away! Then played and came to tell me she needed to go, she was just a bit wet, so we changed outfits and went back to playing. About two hours later, she came to tell me she needed to go again. Then right before we left to go home, she went again and then stayed dry on the way home.

So, I think we can say that we have a lot of SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!! She seems to be so much happier without a diaper on all the time. :) Tomorrow we are going to try going shopping for a few little things - and see how that goes. So, yeah. I have to say I am quite happy with our success, and I expect that things will continue to improve, although I am not naive in thinking that we're going to have some accidents here and there along the way. I'm smart like that!

Anyway, have some pictures and I'm going to bed. :) G'night!

I've got that "just woke up" kind of look.

Ahhhh, the joy of warm milk in the morning.

Oh, hai! I went pee! Aren't you proud of me?

Potty Training Day 1 - Commence!!!

This is how things are going to go down. I am keeping track of accidents and successful pees in the potty. Here we are - we used the very last diaper since she woke up until 11:00am.

11:30am - SUCCESS #1;  we went in the potty, only because Mommy Monster made Kaylee Monster sit on it for half an hour.

I drew a happysad on my hand. Markers are great!

3:24pm - accident #1;
5:30pm - accident #2;
6:45pm - accident #3; I noticed her grumpy face for no reason, figured she was gonna poop, and sure enough some was on it's way out. Put her on the pot and she finished pooing! She then freaked out a little bit. But hey - I call this a partial success.

Coloring my princess book still.

8:12pm - accident #4; all over my leg :(
8:25pm - accident #5;
8:36pm - accident #6;
8:54pm - accident #7; on some coloring books :(
10:09pm - accident #8;

Learning about toilet paper.

10:47pm - SUCCESS #2; She felt herself getting wet, she said "uh, oh" turned around and went pee in her potty for the first time! She laughed as she watched. Oh, gosh. I just got really proud of my kid for going potty. Her reward was a Cinderella Coloring Book!

Mom pretty much gave up on clothes after a while.

12:36am - accident #9; she won't sleep for some reason. She almost made it to the potty though. Good effort.

I am SOOO done with this today. Let me go nitenite!

12:47am - She has passed out for the night. I have an alarm set to wake us both up in 4 hours to take her to the potty. Then right back to bed we go. Wish us luck on our first night of potty training.

Day one conclusion: I got frustrated during the 8 o'clock hour because it was so many accidents. But overall, it's not too bad. She's getting the idea of what she needs to do, but we need to work on timing. So, yeah. It's been a rough day one, but we'll keep on trying. That's all we can do. We have zero diapers and I am not spending money to get more. So...we're committed. We have no choice.

I'm off to sleep for a few hours so I can get the girl up to empty her bladder. :) Tootles. **side note - get more washable markers. These suckers will not come off of skin. I've washed my arm three times and it still looks like this:

I suppose that is what I get for letting my 2 year old pretend to tattoo me :)

G'night.

Coloring! And, you know...stuff.

LOL...tried to post without actually posting anything :) It has been that kind of day.

Anyway, I thought I would post before the upcoming dread that is potty training.

Today, we have colored. This is the Monster's most favorite pastime, it really is ridiculous how much this girl likes to color.

Pretty "buffly."

Concentrating

Using a pen instead of crayon....same thing right?

The best thing ever is when she fins a large circle or oval...because then she does this:

She calls this a "happysad."

"Happysads" are the result of me drawing a happy face, then a sad face and then pointing to one and then the other and saying "happy, sad." So now, every happy face is a happysad, and every sad face is a happysad. It's freaking cute.

Now...to the potty training. I am going to try the 3 day method outlined by Lora Jensen. We're going to give it a shot. Mainly, because I am really tired of changing diapers. Secondly, since I am going to go back to school money is going to be tighter. Thirdly, I am really tired of changing diapers. So, I will be doing this starting tomorrow. If everything goes well, I will have a potty trained little Monster by Monday. If not, well, there really is no turning back at this point.

So...I will try to blog each night before bed to update you on the process, and results. Not that any of you really want to know about a Monster's potty training, but hey, you'll be the one reading - so that is on you :) <---happysad