I finally decided it was well beyond time to potty train this little girl (as she is almost 2 1/2). She has shown signs of being ready for a long time but for some reason I just dreaded actually doing it. She always told me when she needed to go #2 and would even go into the bathroom to do her business (in her diaper). I just didn't want to mess things up that were still going really great for her like bed and nap time. And I made excuses like going home for Christmas, being busy showing vacancies, and not having a good solid 3 days or so to just stay home. But she watched a cartoon where they went potty on a big potty and well that was that- she wanted to too!
So we did the usual. We went to the store and let her pick out her new big girl panties and potty seat. She didn't really like the seat that sits on the toilet so we went back and got a little potty "just her size" and she really liked it. We stayed home for 2 days with few accidents and so we went out on the 3rd day and no accidents! And the rest is history! ha
Such a big girl! For the first 2 days she was pretty much just naked all day and then she would just be in panties for a few more days except when we'd leave the house, but all in all I think she picked it up pretty quick with not very many accidents. She still wears a pull-up for nap and bedtime, but that's fine by me (I don't want her waking up in the night to go potty or because she peed the bed). And she's still in a crib (I'm hanging onto it as LONG as possible) so she can't just go on her own.
Anyway- glad to only be changing one little bummy now!
However..... all my suspicions were right about potty training! It totally messed up nap time. For 3 weeks straight I could NOT for the life of me get her to sleep, yet around about 3pm she was SO ornery! I was going to pull my hair out! But I finally got her back napping... for now!
We also made another big change in Mckell's life- we got rid of her binkie!!!! FINALLY! It has definitely been a long time coming and I openly admit it was me who didn't want to get rid it. It just made things easy and by that I mean bedtime and traveling (we only let her have it in her crib, for long car rides, or if she was sick). But it was getting a bit embarrassing so I made a little hole in it which really didn't seem to phase her at all. So Courtland started snipping a little off every couple days (I couldn't do it). She really didn't seem to mind that much, she'd ask what happened and we'd just say it broke and she'd still just hold it and bit it at bed time. Which I think that's just fine, she can't actually suck it and has to be biting it for it to stay in her mouth so that works for us.
Yah for our big girl who is potty trained, binkie free, and will be 2 1/2 in a few weeks!!
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