Beautiful Jesus, how may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are.
Knees to the earth
Beautiful Jesus
How may I bless Your heart?
Knees to the earth I bow down to everything You are.
Beautiful Jesus
You are my only worth.
So let me embrace You always as I walk this earth.
- Watermark
So how's the potty training going (Potty training Part 2)
It's a slow day in my bloggerville when my last 2 posts are on the potty habits of my 2 year old, but I did say I'd update so here's the progress report
Weeeeellll, actually, it's a mixed review here so far. Last weekend she did awesome! Saturday she finally peed (can you "say" peed online?) ok she "pee pee'd" -hmm not sure that sounds any better, but you get the point. THAT is what she did Saturday. Her accomplishments Saturday were mainly because I rushed her to the potty midstream (as she was wetting my shirt). Sunday, however was much better - she actually told me when she had to go and then it was a mad dash for the potty. Right now our only drawback is once she sits down she holds it in and begins to cry. I think it is because she doesn't want to let it go in the potty ??. I end up having to hug her and tell her it is ok to let it go in the potty. Then she screams and hollers with this look of terror on her face as she goes in the potty all while I have to hold her down so she doesn't get up midstream.
So to wrap up our progress so far: she is "going" in the potty (and on the potty, and on the floor) - but the concept of the potty being the place to go is starting to hit her.
She does not like going in her "big girl pants" and at night when she has on a diaper she will wake up and tell me she has to go or has gone and insists on being changed right away. (usually at 4:15 am).
We haven't even tackled the other bodily function - Holding her down to do the one is enough for us right now.
I have a few other posts saved as drafts that I need to upload photos on. So they will be coming soon. Taking K to the potty every 15 minutes eats up a lot of my time so blogging and photo uploading are slow...But I promise updates soon! I know Candi is waiting on me to posts the photos from our trip to Georgia. :)
Today we began our potty training adventure - officially. Actually, I tried starting to potty train her the end of May, but it was right after we officially weaned. She was having trouble keeping her fluid intake at the right levels and ended up spending a day and part of an evening in Children's Hospital because she was dehydrated.
My poor baby had to have a catheter to get urine samples and she was so dehydrated they were not even able to get blood when they tried on her arms twice! So needless to say we postponed potty training and let her get back to normal.
Now she's gotten her fluid intake regulated and can tell me when she's wet/or poopy (She yells "MOM, I poo poo" - and poo poo is what she calls anything she does in her diaper)- so to me that mean the next step is potty training. I do not use pull ups when potty training except when we are going out in public, and diapers are only for night time....although past few nights she has stayed dry.
Today she wore her "big girl" pants all day and only had 3 accidents....still hasn't done anything in the potty, but she sure has done a lot of sitting. I am having her train Elmo while I train her and she really likes checking to make sure Elmo is "dry" and then putting him on the potty. I think Elmo has been on the potty today more than she has.
So basically what I'm doing is checking her every 15 minutes and I'll ask if she's dry - if she is, she gets a treat and I have her sit on the potty - at some point she will hopefully do something in the potty and receive a bigger treat and loads of applause. If she's wet, we do a change of pants (no treat) and we start the 15 minutes all over again. That's the plan - it's been a while since I've had to potty train so I'm trying to remember what I did the last 2 times (10-13 years ago!) and pick what worked best.
I'm open to suggestions and will let you know how tomorrow goes.
