potty training

Potty training deserves it's own post because it ruled my life for a month. Don't feel bad if you can't potty train your kid in 3 days like the book says. Because it definitely took a month for us.

Sadie LOVED her undies and loved sitting on the potty. She did not love actually peeing in the potty. The first couple days she was downing liquids like they say the kid should, and she was peeing little tiny bits every 20 minutes. I was cleaning up these tiny accidents for 3 days with no pee in the potty. I wanted to rip my hair out.

On the fourth day we FINALLY got pee in the potty. It was a huge relief. She also started holding her pee longer so there were less accidents, but they were bigger. SHe loved getting her candy and stickers for going pee in the potty.

Then came the digressions. One day would be amazing, the next day she would have several accidents. She loved the reward system, but didn't seem to care if she didn't get any candy either. We couldn't leave the house because she would pee the second we did. I felt trapped inside the house and was doing nothing but cleaning up pee. I had a breakdown one day and Nathan let me take the evening off. I went to Target, haha.

Slowly things just started clucking into place. She started asking to pee and running to the bathroom. We would go days without accidents. She loved to eat her candy laying on the ground, with no clothes on.

 She's essentially completely day trained (we'll tackle sleep later), but we do still have the occasional accident. She holds it really well, and isn't scared of public bathrooms. We haven't braved church without a pullup yet, and she likes to pee when she's in timeout (pretty sure that's on purpose), but it's a relief to have things going smoothly!