Man, I feel like I say this all the time these days, but my baby isn't a baby anymore. She is a big girl, who is now potty trained. And once again, I can't believe how easy it was. We have been casually using the potty since she was about 16-17 months old. But I wasn't mentally prepared to potty train her. The thought of running errands, having to leave your cart to take her potty, driving in rush hour traffic and hearing those precious little words of "Mommy potty." I wasn't ready. She was, I wasn't.
So last weekend I decided to give the 3 day potty training method a try. This 3 day potty training lady seemed a little hard core for me. I couldn't imagine not leaving my house for at least 3 days and not leaving my childs side. Not watching TV, no facebooking, no "me" time while she plays on her own, no walks, no park, no pool for 3 days. Yeah right lady, your crazy. And to throw all my diapers out and go straight to panties, once again yeah right lady. I had about 80 diapers left. I paid good money for them I am not getting rid of them. Plus Raegan doesn't wake up dry in the morning, and no crazy potty training lady I am not waking my child up an hour after going to bed to get her to go potty. And no, crazy potty training lady, I am not waking my child up an hour early in the morning to get her to go potty. She can stay in a diaper or pull up at night for all I care. I do not want to be changing bedsheets at 3am. I want to be sleeping.
So Monday morning, July 18 we went for it. Straight to panties. Raegan did awesome. She would tell me ahead of time when she had to go potty and we would walk to the bathroom together, pull her panties down, she would do her business, and then she would get an M&M for a reward. If she would go poopy then she got a bigger reward, cookie, stickers, stamp on her hands and feet. Whatever she wanted, she got!
3 days went by accident free. I couldn't believe it. She was even waking up from her naps early to go potty. So Thursday, day 4, I was finally able to leave to house with her, but I was scared to. I didn't want to deal with an accident in the car or at Target. So we used a pull up. We even bought her a new potty chair that was smaller so that we could take it with us in the car. That way, at any point when we were out and about she could go potty. She stayed dry at Target and as soon as we got home ran inside and went potty on her new chair. Friday we went to Hobby Lobby to buy some stuff for her birthday and she told me she had to go as we were leaving to store and she got to use her new potty chair in the back seat of my Jeep for the first time. We then went to TJ Maxx and she picked out 2 new packs of big girl panties, Minnie Mouse and Hello Kitty. She loves picking out her panties in the morning. If I try and put Hello Kitty on her she wants Minnie Mouse and wants to pick them out herself and put them on herself.
It is such a great feeling going to Target and not buying diapers. I can't believe how fast she got it and how easy it was. And it really is nothing to stress about. Now whenever I go to a store the first thing I do is find out where the bathroom is in case she needs to go at any point.
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