Potty Training

We figured an event as significant as this deserved it's own post!!

We've started the process of potty training Makayla last month. I wasn't going to start until the summer when I was home with the kids all day, but after her 2 year check-up, the doctor thought she was ready and didn't think it would take too long once she got the hang of it. 

We went to the store and Makayla got to pick out her own big girl underwear and potty seat. She picked "Tangled/Rapunzel" underwear and a princess potty seat that makes noises. When we got home she was so excited to try on her new big girl underwear.

 Then we tried sitting on her potty seat. She didn't like it at first and had no clue what to do. We just let her get the feel for it. 

 The thing Tyler and I decided right off the bat was that we would not pressure her in any way, so it has taken a few weeks and a lot of bribing along the way, but she is getting close. In the beginning if Makayla would wear her big girl underwear, she would get a sticker. Then we moved into stickers and fruit snacks if she sat on the potty. Sometimes she just sat on the potty while reading a book (sounds a lot like her dad). 

 After a few weeks, and a lot of accidents on the floor, she still wasn't going potty in the toilet, and I was getting a little frustrated. Then it was like one day she just "got it". She started telling me she needed to go to the potty and then when I sat her down, she just went! She got to pick her reward and she picked popcorn and movie. So now every time she goes, she says, "popcorn and mermaid!"

She's almost fully trained at home, then we'll work on going potty at daycare, and finally through the night. Now when Kayla goes, she insists on getting herself on undressed and getting on the potty by herself. Just one more sign that my little girl is growing up!

She's even so big that she insisted on typing a message on her potty post: 

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Stay tuned and hopefully in a few weeks we'll officially be a one diaper family!