Potty Training Day One

WARNING: This post and future posts might include bodily function descriptions.

These words "potty training" sure can cause a lot of conversations, opinions, emotions, and stress. 

If you know me at all, you know potty training Kyle was just plain awful. Absolutely none of the tried and true methods worked. He even gave my mother in law a run for her money and she had successfully potty trained four kids! Conner was better, but still it took an army to accomplish the task it felt like.  

I had no plans to even attempt Callie to learn to potty earlier rather than later. I don't really mind diapers and honestly didn't want to face this insurmountable task yet again. However, miss Callie is just plain obsessed with the potty. You often find her with her pants off in the bathroom going "potty." In addition, in the last couple of weeks she has started announcing that she is going potty or pooping or bringing you a diaper because she needs changed.

So with great fear of yet another failure, Callie and I started on a little potty journey this morning. Jim is gone all day and other than one soccer game and church, we could be home all weekend. I probably should've chosen a span of time where I had moral support, but alas what is done is done.  

Just in case it works, I thought I'd journal the initial progress or lack there of.  So here we go:

Day One Morning:

Callie successfully went potty while sitting on the potty watching elmo.  It was exciting to start with success. We cheered, had candy, and talked about the fact that potty always goes in the potty chair not in our pants.

The morning continued in underwear.  I constantly told Callie that we don't go potty in our pants we go on the potty, and she needs to tell Mommy when she needs to go. I read that you shouldn't give them a choice, but just tell them that is what they are to do.  She says O.k. mom.

Since our success, we have peed on the floor twice. Both times, we immediately yelled Mommy potty!!  So while we didn't go on the chair, I figured it was progress.  She did also poo in her pants, but that she did not confess. 

By nap time, I was desperate for a break so I happily put in her in a diaper and put her to bed.  While she has been napping I have washed all of the underwear so we can start fresh anew after nap. 

Probably, though, the cutest thing this morning was Callie potty training her dolly. She took off the baby's diaper, put the baby on the potty and told it she'd give it candy if it went, then waited a minute and cheered for the baby who went "potty", then she took out the plastic part that holds the potty, took it to the toilet, "dumped" it in and flushed the toilet.  After that, she put the doll's diaper back on and said in a stern voice NO WET! 

Day One Afternoon:

Callie took a very long afternoon nap sleeping from 12:45 til 3:45. She did go poo and potty in her nap diaper. I put her back in her undies and we headed for the kitchen.  About 6, after confining her to the bathroom for an hour, Callie peed in the potty again! This time she told me she had to go so I think that is a little progress.

However, after that she became obsessed with trying to go potty to get candy and cheer. By 7 I was exhausted, so I resorted to letting her watch Super Why episodes on the kindle while she sat on potty.  She watched too many cartoons today, but since I have been on my own with this all day, I am just glad I survived.  I  so desperately wanted her to have some success  today so she knew what I was talking about. 

Hopefully, we will continue to make some progress tomorrow....