You might have gathered from the last post that we are potty training. It is exhausting. Every time she thinks she needs to go (which can at times be EVERY FIVE MINUTES), we have to run to the bathroom with me telling her to “hold it! hold it! squeeze! squeeze!” all the way. Then we get there and one of us (sometimes me, sometimes her) gets her prepared as quickly as possible so she can sit on her potty chair. More times than not, she sits there a minute or two, then tells me it’s too hard and she’s done. Five minutes later, lather, rinse and repeat. You know the drill.
But, she’s starting to get it. We had a couple of accidents yesterday, but they were late in the afternoon, so progress from the first day. But she’s smart. She’ll get it. Yesterday she got a prize every time she went. She went this morning and she didn’t want a prize. Cool. I thought I might be going broke buying her prizes (packages of things from the dollar store and she gets one thing from the package). But she’s apparently going to break herself of that on her own. She has a really cool t-shirt with a horse hanging in her room for when she is able to go all the time without accidents. So she’s looking forward to that.
The downside? She absolutely will not even TRY to go on the big potty. But for the moment, I’m not pushing it. I figure we’ll just take this one step at a time. And once she gets the muscle control thing down a little better, then we’ll deal with the big potty. I mean, unless she never leaves the house again, at some point, she’ll have to use a big potty. So we have to deal with this issue sooner or later.
But all in all, I haven’t killed myself yet, and that’s a good thing.
In the next day or so, I’ll be starting a new summer feature, called “Summer Surfing” in which I attempt to clean out my email by posting links on a daily (or close to daily) basis from the emails I’ve been saving for the past several (and I do mean several) weeks. So think of it as bonus Surfer Sunday for the summer. Because really, we have nothing else to do, right? Ha!
