I had a goal to get you potty trained before your second birthday and am very happy to report that I was successful. You do still wear a pull-up at night/nap, but you are completely potty trained during the day. Here's how we did it:
1. Around 18 months we really began reading books about potting and setting on the potty. You really liked the book titled "Potty".
2. For a couple of months I gave you opportunities to sit on it and read books and talk about pottying.
3. Finally around 20 months we really began to get serious. I began having you walk around naked in the house. You began to show that you understood peeing on the floor was bad and you didn't like doing it. I kept a potty chair near you constantly, and as long as we had it near by and reminded you to try often, you did pretty good. I'd say we averaged about 2 accidents a day.
4. Slowly, you became completely reliable naked and wouldn't have an accident on the floor. You were slower to adapt to pooping in the toilet and would try to hold it until we put your pull-up on for your nap, but you honestly weren't as bad as some people say it can be.
5. Finally, we began to try to get daycare to help us so we could move to panties and finalize the process. This did not go well. The daycare you were in thought you were too young and wasn't exactly interested. Mommy and daddy had to work even harder at home to begin to show you how to wear panties and use the potty.
6. For probably another month we slowly introduced you to panties and helped you understand that going potty in them was not good. Again, daycare didn't help, so we finally decided to pull you out (among other reasons). Your Aunt Sarah came over to help watch you and with her help, we were finally able to get you to fully understand how to use the potty and no go in your panties. It just took someone offering the potty enough times throughout the day.
7. By about 23 months, we were almost completely in panties except for the occasional long trip somewhere and by 24 months, you were completely trained in the day and you let us know anywhere we go if you need to go potty.
It is a great feeling. Daddy and I are very proud of you and impressed with how good you are doing. I am now working on naps. Today you slept in panties and only had a tiny accident in your panties. You woke up shortly after. I think it will take about a month more and we'll be good with naps.
This was all leading up to your big second birthday!! Your grandma, papa and cousin Josie came up to celebrate and we went to the Magic House! It was so much fun. Josie gave you a baby doll and grandma gave you a caboodle of jewelry, makeup, hair styling tools, a toy box and a baby bed/high chair. Mommy and daddy gave you a purse with a phone and keys and a baby to wash in the bath tub. We celebrated with brownies and ice cream, because you aren't a huge fan of cake, but you LOVE ice-cream.
You recently started in a little Lutheran pre-school on Mondays and Wednesdays and are really loving it. It makes mommy so happy to have you back in a great school. Your teachers are Miss Amiee and Miss Judy and you really like them. I hope we are able to keep you there - if Sarah gets a job we will have to find a more full-time solution.
I will post soon with new updates about Christmas in a couple of weeks. You are LOVING Christmas right now and love the lights, songs and movies. We sing you to bed with Frosty the Snowman, Away in the Manager (or as you call it "baby Jesus") and we have to watch frosty the snowman on TV pretty much everyday. It tickles daddy and I that you are so into this - sure makes the holidays much more fun.
Daddy and I talk occasionally about giving you a baby brother or sister, but it is so hard thinking about splitting our time with anybody but you. We'll have to wait and see about that.
We love you, E.
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