I had intended to potty train Bean last week, starting Tuesday. But Monday night was full of Bean's barf-capades, and I didn't think it wise to potty train while she was sick.
Last night before falling asleep, Bean took off her jammies and slept only in a diaper. As soon as she woke up, she stripped off the diaper and was racing around the house starkers. Okay, I thought, let's start this now.
She was fine for a few hours. She'd sit on the little potty while watching cartoons. Then she started to whimper and freak out about sitting on the potty -- she would shriek and cry and and claw and refuse to sit still and demand a diaper. We figured her bladder was full and refused a diaper for her. She calmed down a bit and settled into a Tom and Jerry coma while Dim and I took turns watching her like hawks on the potty chair.
After another 45 minutes or so, she calmly tells me "Mama, I peed in potty." I made a big deal of it, huzzahs and high fives and parading down the hall to the bathroom to dump the pot. She got to go downstairs and pick out a piece of candy (leftovers from Halloween and stockings). After that, she got terribly excited to pee in the potty once she realized that my promises of sugar in exchange for uirine were true.
All told, she peed in the pot four or five times today, which is awesome. Toward the end of the day, she wasn't even asking for candy once she peed. Granted, she also took two craps on the floor, but one step at a time, I guess.
Posted by Jen at January 10, 2009 8:42 PM