Potty Update

Well the whole potty training thing has NOT been very productive, however she is driving us nuts by wanting her diaper changed the second she pees in it! She doesn't seem to understand how crazy expensive diapers are, especially to be changing them every hour!!! See those two boxes in the background of this pic? FORTY DOLLARS OF DIAPERS. Yeah I know. Anyway, Chris suggested that we get her a little potty of her own rather than just the potty seat that goes on the regular toilet because she says she's scared of the big potty and she likes to have her own of everything. I was all for it at this point....so we took her to Target today and found the PERFECT potty! It is a pink princess potty that has a sensor in the bowl so that when she does her business in there, it plays music!!! Being a self-proclaimed princess, she was thrilled about this potty! So here in this first picture is literally minutes after we got home...she ripped off her clothes and had to try it out! I taught her how to take the seat off and the bowl out to dump it in the toilet to flush it away and she kept practicing this routine over and over. Who knew a potty could be so much fun?!

Chris and I were trying to get things done around the house and she was still going crazy over the potty and wanting us to watch her so we finally had to just walk away despite her arguments otherwise. A few minutes later she came into her room where I was and said "Mama I pee-peed in the potty!!!" Well honestly I wasn't so sure because she has NEVER done this, only accidentally pooped a couple times, but sure enough she had done it! She excitedly took the bowl out to flush it away and we were SO proud of her! She got to pick out a special potty sticker for her special potty book (tinkerbell journal) and she even got to open a potty present that Mimi had left for her for when this day came! She LOVED it! Shortly after that though I had to leave to go to a concert with a friend so when I was gone apparently the obsession with the potty continued. Chris said she refused to get off the potty for nearly the whole night and even for dinner she would run into the kitchen, eat a bite, then run back to the potty. Chris gave up and just took her plate of mac and cheese in there so she could sit on her "throne" and eat. This won't become a habit, so don't worry, but I'm glad she was so excited about using the potty. I even got a call from her saying she went pee-pee on the potty again!

By the time I got home, Chris was exhausted because she refused to get off the potty to go to bed. Good news though, she went pee-pee FIVE TIMES tonight!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaay Mckayla! Now if we can just figure out how to convince her it's okay to leave the potty for a bit after she goes...hehehe