Here is a picture of Gracee going potty on the big girl potty in style! She loves her pink cowboy boots that are a hand me down from big sister Elly. She loves them so much that she wears them all around the house and even on the potty! Gracee is growing up so fast. She started wanting to go potty on her little potty at about 18 months and would join anyone that was in the potty. She really liked to sit on her little potty when Elly would go potty- Elly wasn't as fond of this type of sister bonding as Gracee was. The thing that surprised me is that Gracee would actually pee in the potty when she sat on it- almost every time. So I contemplated whether to put her in underwear or pull-ups, or what would be the next best step in our potty training adventure. Then on Thanksgiving Day, Gracee pooped for the first time on the big girl potty. Yeah! And after that for the most part, she was doing number 2 in the potty. So we tried underwear, but on the first attempt she had an accident within 5 minutes of the underwear being on. Since it was around the holidays, I decided to wait until all the chaos had passed and we were on a more normal schedule to put her back in underwear. So on the morning of January 24Th, Gracee was in underwear and we were not turning back. It only took about 3 days and she was pretty much done having accidents- Way to go Gracee! She has also stayed dry through the night almost every night since being in underwear. It was really a lot easier then I thought it was going to be. A week or two after the potty training success, we took Gracee and let her pick out her very own underwear- she of course picked out some stylish Elmo underwear. Why Elmo? you might be wondering. Well during our potty training adventure, Gracee became very fond of the "Elmo Potty Time" video we have. She would watch it every day, sometimes 3 or 4 times a day. We even have the Elmo potty doll, and so Gracee would take Elmo potty every time she went potty or whenever she watched the movie- fun times! So no more diaper dance, but yeah for big girl underpants!
2 comments:
Yay, your first post!! I can't believe she's so big, I hope Keira's training is just as easy ;) Can't believe she's turning 2! Are you going to have a bday party?
what an overachiever!! that is so impressive that she potty trained so young! i can't seem to keep ian interested in it at all. maybe i should send him to you so you can work your magic. what do you think? do you teach other kids too?
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