On Tuesday, April 26th, I decided I would attempt to potty train Samantha. Don't ask me why, I just felt like giving it a shot, and if we had to wait and try again some other time, then we would wait.
I am shocked to say that she's doing FABULOUS!!!!!!! She's doing better then I could of ever imagined! This girl just loves to prove me wrong in everything she does.
The first few days were pretty rough, and that's when we almost stopped it all. A lot of frustration and exhaustion for the both of us. She kinda got the idea of it, But she would say potty AS she was going pee or poop. We kept working on it though and after the first week she started to tell me when she needed to potty BEFORE she had to potty.
The first week we tried the training underwear during the day. But she kept having accidents. So we tried nothing at all, yep, nakie baby all day and night(except for nap time and bed time, which she's in diapers then). It seemed to do the trick. But I think it helped that she was in the training underwear the first week that way she knew what the feeling of wet felt like, and she does not like the feeling of being wet and dirty. My goal is to stay far, far away from pull ups.
She has had no peeing accidents in 4 days. She has had a couple of poopy accidents, but that seems to be getting better also. The day before yesterday she didn't poop at all, so I knew she would poop yesterday, so I was paranoid all day. lol. We got back to Grandma and Grandpa's house and she told me "pawee", so I put her on the potty and she went poop. So like I said, she's getting better on the pooping part. I hope. I give her a couple of M&Ms each time she pees and poops in the potty, and I let her know that's why she's getting candy. Candy helps as always! ;o)
We've had 2 outings accident free. On Mother's Day, we were out all day long. Not 1 accident. Everywhere we stopped I took her to use the potty and she peed every time. We stopped at a gas station cause Seth needed to get gas and we wanted to get some drinks. So I took her to the bathroom and she peed. I took her back to the truck and Aunt Lisa strapped her in the car seat, I went back inside for something, I don't remember what, then I came back out and Lisa told me that Samantha was saying potty. So I took her back to the bathroom and she peed again. She did great! We finally got out to the place where we went fishing and their bathrooms were totally nasty and Samantha was not having it(I do not blame her one bit). So we just let her run around with no underwear on(she was wearing a dress, so no one noticed she was nakie). We were out there for about 4 hours and she maybe peed twice, in the water. lol. This is what we use when we're out and about http://www.walmart.com/ip/Disney-Winnie-the-Pooh-Folding-Potty-Seat/15846724.
If she does have accidents, it's usually not her fault. She'll either say potty too quiet that we can't hear her or we just can't understand her(sometimes puppy and potty sound the same lol). Or we'll be doing something around the house and not paying attention to her.
So its only been about 2 weeks and she's doing awesome!! I'm seriously in shock on how great she's doing. I really thought that it wouldn't work at all right now. I thought, well maybe it's still a little early yet. But like I said before, this girl LOVES to prove me and everyone else wrong.
