Potty Training with Alayna

And we officially entered the world of Potty Training with Alayna. Friday, March 4 was just a plain old rainy day and there was nothing to do - no playgroups, no storytimes, no groceries that needed to be bought - so why not right? And we had a rather uneventful weekend planned - so we went for it.
Considering she before Friday, Alayna would harldy sit on the potty for more than 5 seconds - the fact she is happily reading her wagon full of books was promising in itself :)

Daddy happened to stop by just in time to see her first pee in the potty! LOOK!!!

HOORAY!!!!

But after all the fun of the little potty in the kitchen - she decided if she was going to do this potty thing like a big girl - she better be able to use the big potty too. (I tried telling her a couple weeks ago she had to be 3 to use the big potty - but she's not buying that one. I simply don't want her to because she can't get on and off it by herself and with a stool I worry about her falling - because I've seen her almost fall a few times already. But - if it's train on the big potty or not at all - we'll go for the big potty!)

Thumbs up! Super excited!

"Look Mommy...poopy!" I think this one was an accident, but whatever - we'll take it!

So - Friday went a little like this. I was excited when Alayna took interest on Friday morning and would actually sit longer than 5 seconds on the potty. We put on training undies and pants to start the morning. After going through 2 pair of pants in a matter of min - we went to only undies. After a couple more pair of undies we went to bare buns. We stayed in the kitchen pretty much all day so I could stick to cleaning up puddles instead of scrubbing carpets. She did pretty good - once she started going she would stop herself and say "potty mommy potty". So we continued with that for most of the day - no undies, cleaning up puddles, but putting lots of tinkles in the big potty.

Saturday went pretty well also. We wore undies most of the day. Things went better. Less puddles and wet undies. We even went to eat pizza with some friends that night and she only wet once while playing. I was a bit bummed though b/c with Grant when we went away we always put plastic pants over his undies. They kept his pants dry longer even if he had an accident. WELL - Alayna HATED them. She cried when we put them on and said they hurt. I'm not sure if she just didn't like the crinkling or if maybe they were really pinching her legs. So - no plastic pants for this girl :(

Sunday I was really impressed. I didn't know if we should attempt church or not. I was on for nursery duty though and since pizza went well Sat night - we went with it. She went once when we got to church and once when nursery was all done. She only had 1 accident all day...even did #2 on the potty (which was scarier for her that day for some reason).

Monday was a bit different. Quite a few accidents. Not usually all out accidents though. Enough wet to need to change undies, but still more left to go in the potty too. Staying completely dry and going on the potty is earning a piece of twizzler and a half and half (stopping it after wetting) is earning a skittle.

Proud of you Layna! Keep up the good work!