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Potty Training Battle Royale: Round 1


Amelia: 1
Mommy: 0

Since I am so very over changing 10+ diapers a day I thought it would be a good time to start Amelia on the exciting world of flushing. Santa brought Under the Sea panties, I bought Under the Sea pull-ups, found the stickers and I had committed myself to the next week of not leaving the house and spending the whole time with her.

I found her potty friend chair and told her it would be her special chair and would go around wherever she went today. Lucky girl! She just looked at me.

I took off her diaper and told her she gets to wear the lucky Under the Sea pull-ups and wouldn't it be neat that she can pull them up and down all by herself. Cue Meltdown.

I wrestle her down and put the pull ups on knowing for sure that once they are on she will love them and will only want to wear them forever. Cue Kicking.

She pulls the pull ups down. I say WOW! aren't you smart doing it all by yourself! What a big girl blah blah...Cue glaring.

And scene.

Comments

Unknown said…
Thanks for the update.

have fun PT Mia Mia. I say that totally tongue in cheek because as you know - there is nothing fun about it.
December 27, 2007 at 5:05 PM
heidiram said…
Maybe we can get the two cousins together for some quality PT time. Today when I took Sarah to the doctor, her philosophy was 1 million percent different than Sarah's behavior therapist's philosophy on PT. Remember all those back to back accidents we've been having for 1 week now? Yeah, Sarah hasn't peed for 12 hours. O.K. technically when she refused to pee in the specimen cup OR in the bag at the doctor's office, they had to cath her. So yeah, there was enough of a sample to run tests. But aside from that, NADA in the bowel movement or pee-pee department for 12 hours. And if she didn't have a UTI, after today she most certainly will have one.
December 27, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Jessica G. said…
Oh boy...not looking forward to that! The Boy also received underwear for Christmas (sans princesses) and we checked out the potty movie from the library (is it horrible if it makes me giggle?) so we're gearing up to start the training. Just need to stock up on carpet cleaner and valium.
December 27, 2007 at 10:00 PM
SC said…
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December 28, 2007 at 1:29 PM
mamasuisse said…
Good luck with that. I'm not looking forward to this stage with Sam. I got VERY lucky and 2 of my 4 potty trained kids trained themselves. The other two needed a little more help. I used a book called something like Potty Training in a Day for Sarah, and it worked really well (although it took us more like 3 days).
December 28, 2007 at 1:30 PM
Celia Fae said…
I hope you've given up already. Potty training is a summer activity so you can spray bums off with the cold hose in the backyard.
December 28, 2007 at 9:55 PM
Hazen5 said…
Just make her put on her favorite flipflops and let her pee on them, it worked for Pay!
December 29, 2007 at 10:34 AM
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