Hey ya'll!
We began our absolute last attempt at potty training Rainbow today! She is 3 years and 2 months old, so it's about time. We've tried before, but I realized that she wasn't ready. The last time we tried, she was able...but not willing. This time she's excited and I really believe a lot of it is due to her speech therapy. I'm sure that sounds odd. But our biggest obstacle thus far has been communication. She couldn't understand me and I couldn't understand her. It just wasn't working. She has been in speech therapy now for about a month or two and she's made significant progress in her speech! Now she is able and willing to potty, and able to communicate with me. Yay!
We are on day 1.
We started off the day in pull-ups because I didn't decide until about 1 o'clock to start the actual potty training boot camp, thanks to the motivation of my good friend, Kimberli. So the chart below says pull-ups and 4 of the stickers under "potty w/ wet pull-up" were from earlier when she could just pee in her pull-up and get away with it. So before I started, I quickly gathered up materials for the car. I tossed her 'Cheer For Me Potty' (Fisher Price), wipes, two changes of clothes, and an extra pack of underwear in the trunk of my car for those "to-go" moments. You know, when they've got to go potty and there is not one anywhere nearby. Car being potty training prepped? Check.
After I came back in, I gathered all the indoor supplies. Lots of older pairs of underwear passed down from my dear friend, Josie? Check. Princess potty seat? Check. Step stool Rainbow got from her Uncle Marcus and soon-to-be Aunt Megan for her birthday? Check. Rainbow's home-made potty chart made from excess poster-board that we didn't use at her birthday party? Check. Dora stickers I bought for this purpose, stuck up on top of the fridge, and then forgot about? Check. Leftover Hershey's chocolate bars from the smores we made a week or two ago, to be used for reward? Check. Anything else I needed? Yes, I still needed to let Brooklyn pick out some brand new panties and choose her reward candy. A short trip to Walmart after her speech therapy took care of those items.
So it begins...dun, dun, dun!
Rainbow was officially wearing panties by 2pm. I hid her pull-ups and told her that I didn't know where they went, so we were going to have to wear panties like a big girl now. She didn't object, at all. Sweet! She had two accidents at first, but just barely peed in them before she started yelling, "Pee Pee! Pee Pee!!!!". We ran for the potty. As she pulled her soiled panties off she exclaimed, "YUCK! Ewww...GROSS!" Awesome - just the reaction I wanted. She finished peeing in the potty both times! Yay! Rainbow gets a piece of chocolate and a sticker of her choice for her chart. Suddenly, she is all in and excited to go potty! She went to speech therapy and Walmart, no accident. We came home and she took a nap, no accident. Immediately after the nap I asked her if she needed to go potty, to which she replied a hefty "No". Then she had a small accident, darted for the bathroom, and finished in the potty! Yay, Rainbow! You still get a reward because you tried, good job! We went the rest of the evening without any accidents!!! She even got up out of bed 3 times needing to go potty so she didn't pee in her panties. Given, now she's having some trouble sleeping because she doesn't want to go in her panties or miss out on her chocolate treat. But this shall pass. Needless to say, Day 1 is going wonderful! Keep us in your prayers that Day 2 goes even better.
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