Today we started potty training Ryan. Wow, what a day so far. Thank goodness for naptime right now. To warn you, the remainder of this post is a little graphic so if you are eating lunch or would rather not read about my daughter's urination and defication process... stop reading now! For those of you with the stomach for it, I'll continue... In preparation for this moment, I have read every book and talked to all my mommy friends who have been through this experience to get advice on how to do it. This is what I have come up with... Ryan gets to wear her new princess or Dora panties (she helped pick them out) and every time Ryan goes potty she gets to put a sticker on her chart, a sticker on her hand, one M&M, and we do the potty dance. The lyrics go, "Ryan likes to potty all the time, potty all the time, potty all the ti-ime" (To the same tune as the eighties hit song that has the word "party" instead of "potty"). Now, if she poo-poos on the potty, everything is the same except that she gets one of her Easter Eggs (with candy inside) instead of just an M&M. If she sits on her potty and at least tries, she gets a sticker on that chart. I have to reward the tries too because it's hard to tear her away from her toys. Is this all a little excessive? Ya, maybe. I don't know. It's working (kinda, I guess) for the first day. Here are the stats for the day so far. You let me know what you think if it's working or not...
1) Before 8:30 a.m. we had to change panties 5 times. Rough start.
2) At appoximately 8:45 a.m. Ryan alerted me to the pee-pee that she did behind the toy chest (thank goodness for hardwood floors)
3) It's now 1:30 and we have had a total of 5 pee-pees in the right place and one poo-poo.
4) We have had a total of 4 pee-pees in the wrong place and one poo-poo (that was a fun one to clean up)
All in all, I'm pretty happy with the outcome so far. Let's see how the afternoon goes after her nap. Any more advice for me?
3 comments:
ahhhhhahahaha i love the "she alerted me to the pee-pee behind the toy chest." i think for the first day 5 pee-pees in the right place is pretty GOOD!! especially since you had less of them in the wrong place. the only advice i can give you (and the only place that i have gone through potty-training is at work) is just keep reminding her! tell her that i am proud of her (and you guys too)!! love you guys and email me about the times for that weekend!
Lori girl you go for it! Dad and I never thought about Easter Eggs! Maybe that's why we had such a hard time with you... just kidding!
xoxo Mom & Dad
as the saying goes, rome was not built in a day ..... patience!
jim says he doesn't even remember potty training (are you surprised)?!!! lots of luck! xoxo
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