BIG, BIG, BIG news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The potty bag is EMPTY. The bag I have had since Easter just waiting to reward Av when she goes to the bathroom on the potty! It had about 8 cheap little dollar bin toys in there for her and she is now the proud owner of all of them. I can’t tell you how happy and proud of her we are. It made my weekend. So it all started last week. I got fed up and went to the library and checked out every potty training book they had. I only got through one of them but the main theme of it was at her age cut out the diapers “cold turkey.” She had Friday off from school so I knew the 3-day weekend would be a great time to do it. So Friday AM we got up and “threw” her diapers away. We had many, many accidents on Friday but we kept going. Finally that night after Grandma and Pap-Pap arrived she ran into the bathroom by herself and a few minutes later we heard “I pee-peed on the potty all by myself!” She was so happy and proud. She must have repeated that sentence a thousand times that night. She did her happy dance as did John and I and G&PP. It was a big celebration. She had started to go pee in her underwear, realized what she was doing, and ran and finished on the toilet. On Saturday again we had multiple accidents all day long. It was starting to look grim again. John and I had a wedding to go to so we left. A few hours in we got a phone call. Av had sat down on the potty and peed! This time she had figured out how to make it happen when she wanted to and it surprised the heck out of her. Since then for the most part she has been able to do it. No poop on the potty yet. Yesterday her and Grandma went out for a while. They were standing in line paying for something and Av told Grandma she had to go poopie. There was not a bathroom where they were so by the time they got to one it was too late. Other than that she has gone in the potty. Last night in the process of reading one book she want pee 3 times in the potty. She likes her new skill! I am sure we still have accidents in our future but no matter what we are not going back to diapers so I feel I can proudly say that Av is potty trained!!!!! We kind of forced her into it but it worked and I am glad we did. At her age she realized she should be going in the potty but she didn’t know how and liked the conveniences of her diaper. Maybe we should have done it six months ago, but maybe she was not ready then. Who knows, all I know is that it worked and I am proud of her.