Potty Progress: Once And For All!

News flash!  Some little girl here is getting potty trained!  We've been going on and off for the last five months and finally I put my foot down and said enough is enough.  Megan is 2 1/2, her cousin is doing great with her own potty progress, her burned hands have healed, trip to Florida and Thanksgiving are over, and frankly, I want to get it over with before Christmas!

Megan wearing Pull-ups the last few months seemed to only benefit the adults pulling them up and down, not actually aiding in the training itself.  My new rule on Saturday was no diapers in the house except naps and bedtime.  We only let her wear panties and if I have to clean up a little pee then I have to clean up a little pee.  We opened up a brand new package of fairy panties and went to work.  Megan had a few emotional moments on Saturday and that's when the two accidents came.  She learned pretty quick that it's not a good thing when the pee runs down her leg and onto the floor :)  I explained that I was not mad at all and that we could clean it up.  Overall she did as good as I could have asked for!

I was especially proud of Megan on Saturday night when she let me put her on the toilet to poop.  She had gone into her bedroom and tried to shut the door on herself and I knew exactly what she intended to do in there.  She loves to be in private when she has to poop, you see (under the steps is actually her favorite spot).  I put her in the upstairs bathroom with the door shut.  I came back a few minutes later and there was a big poop in the toilet and the even wiped herself!!!

Before Megan went to bed last night she went potty and I told her that if she had to pee during the night she could wake Mommy up.  But when she got up this morning she was still completely dry.  Really there hasn't been too much pee in diapers the past couple days.  The only accident she really had yesterday was when she told Grandpa Lewis she had to go but didn't make it in time.  We give her four M&M's if she pees and then a candy from her Halloween bucket if she poops as an incentive.  I think she was going every 15 minutes today for Grandma Lewis just to get the M&M's but that's ok for me!

The other big help for the potty is Megan's new favorite show Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood.  They cover issues that every preschooler might be faced with and stopping what you have to do to go potty is one of them.  We sing the song all the time so she knows it's ok to have to go.

I'm so proud of Megan and excited to have only one kid in diapers!  

This picture is from last month when Alexa and Megan were taking turns sitting on the potty at Grandma Lewis's house!  Grandma has one of the cool potties that plays sounds when the kids start going!