success :)

 -  df

after a rocky two day start to potty training - we're talking going through 12 pairs of undies in 1 1/2 days - kennedie is now a super-star on the potty!! she does everything on the potty (pees & poops) plus stays dry at nap time :)

i was really concerned about starting potty training, i didn't think she was ready. i didn't think she was ready because every time i asked her if she wanted to go on the potty she yelled no & ran the other direction. but i wanted to try to get it done this summer while we (tommy & i) had lots of time to work with her - but once august hit, i had surrendered to the thought of a potty training thanksgiving break. lucky for me, we have an AMAZING daycare provider who has more faith in my little love bug than i did. 

it all started on july 31st, it was a tuesday, & kennedie woke up from nap dry. sheryl, our EXCEPTIONAL daycare provider, decided to go for it. she let kennedie go commando for the afternoon & even got kennedie to go pee-pee on the potty! this i had never been able to do - we had gotten kennedie to go poops on the potty before lots of times with no regularity, but pee-pee was another story. so this was a huge feat. sheryl gives gummy bears for potty rewards, so i stopped & got a bag of gummy bears & i decided to go with it, afterall, we had a new package of 10 panties - i was ready to go ;) i put on a pair on kennedie as soon as we got home and we had a great night. i remember well b/c we had a playdate w/calvin & amanda at our house and i was amazed that kennedie didn't have an accident in her new panties - that said, she didn't actually go potty on the potty either - so i should have been more cautious that i was. a diaper went on for bedtime & we had a super-full, overflowing, wet-the-bed style morning wake up call. but, not discouraged, i put her in panties & away we went for a full day 1 of potty training.

i was still working at this point in the summer, teaching summer school from 8-11, so daddy was on duty. if you know tommy, you know this really isn't his cup of tea. when i checked in via text at about 10, his response was..'lots of accidents' - i was disheartened but also thought that maybe daddy didn't have the touch...haha, that's what i get for thinking those thoughts. the rest of the day + the next day (thursday) was a mess - literally. pee on the wood floors, carpet, outside in her play house & at daycare she had accidents all day - i was convinced that i had been right - she just wasn't ready & we were pushing her. i decided to give it one more day to see how it went, i made a potty sticker chart for kennedie to try a little something new - 1 sticker for pee-pee, 2 for poops.

friday morning i put kennedie on the potty when she got up & she went pee-pee! 1 sticker, 1 gummy bear - check. i headed off to work with a reluctant tommy left with kennedie in undies. i didn't even check in because i was afraid of how it was going. i got home & kennedie greeted me by saying, 'i went in the potty!!' & daddy confirmed - not 1 accident all morning!!! i couldn't believe it! and that was that. since then, there have only been a couple accidents (& those i think were because she was so constipated - we've had that issue, but no others) and she completed her 1st potty chart on august 12th, so she filled up all 60 slots in just 8 days!! she didn't get stickers for all the times she went potty outside of the house - daycare, costco, city market, calvin's house, etc. - we are both SO PROUD of kennedie & she continues to do an amazing job on the potty. for completing her potty chart she got a new game that we enjoyed playing immediately after she received it!

so proud - w/her chart & new game

learning how to play :)

we have a new chart up & are hoping to continue kennedie's success!! she deserved to be celebrated!