Potty training - schmatty training

Potty training, more like Parent training. We are only kidding ourselves. Those toddlers have us all fooled. They can hold it, they can control it, they just don't want to do it. And why? Because you want them to master it...but they won't because they want to control you.

Jelly goes to the potty at day care. She stays dry for most of the day, but at home it is a different story.

"Do you need to go potty?"
"No, I fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yup."

"I go pee, poop and fart on the potty!"
"You do?"
"Yup and Cinderella come to my house."
"OK." wondering how I would accomplish this...

A friend at work gave her daughter a princess party for mastering the potty. Castle cake, pin the tail on the princess (something like that) and all guests dressed-up like little princesses. I thought this was an awesome idea...and it worked for her!

Another friend of mine recommended an article she found on CNN about potty school. And basically touched on my daughters fear of the automatic flusher. My daughter is terrified of that thing.

"Its too loud mommy!" trying to run out of the stall before my pants are up...
"Wait!" Nothing like losing your dignity in a public bathroom!

We started the potty-journey 7 months ago, maybe, just maybe we will get lucky and Jelly will be using the toilet by her 1 year anniversary. Fingers crossed...

Poopy ideas

Some say that all parents of toddlers talk about is poop and vomit...I agree.

A couple weeks ago I gave you our vomit story (which by the way, my daughter is completely obsessed with..."Mommy, my doll throw-up." And after we watched a blurb of Shrek 3, "Shrek baby throw-up." can't tell how many times I have heard that! LOL) So now is my time for my poop story. My daughter has been doing pretty well on the potty, she goes when we are out, she goes at school and is in a good routine at home. We even managed to poop on the potty. Progress! No. Now my daughter has always had constipation issues...sometimes she will go once everyday, sometimes she will wait a full week. Of course by day 3 I am completely freaking out. I am forcing raisins, prunes and pears down her throat. Which she hates. I even tried hiding it in her favorite foods. Our doctor even gave us stool softener for in her juice or water.

Toddlers are always tough to get things into...they sometimes develop favorite foods, like mac and cheese and chicken nuggets (Jelly bean's staples), and will pick and play when they eat. Which never helps the not going poo poo ordeal.

Jelly bean's issue is pure control, she has to go, but won't. But what I can't figure out is why. We never pressure her on the potty or to go potty. We do give her plenty to choose and control in other areas. We always offer fruit and vegetables at meal times. I just can't figure out where we are going wrong. So here is my plead...Someone please offer me something to remedy this!

Bye Bye Stinky Poo!

Last week, our little jelly bean moved up to the older toddler classroom, and we can finally focus on ditching those stinky diapers!

Her primary teacher has been so wonderful with helping her ditch the bottle and binky, I have complete faith that, together, we will help her master the potty too!

So far so good...She loves to sit on the potty, she has successfully pee'd on the potty and she even knows what to do with the toilet paper! Just today, jelly bean went 3 times on the potty, but no poop yet! Well, she did poop in her diaper today but she refused to be changed...Anyone else have this problem?

I will keep you updated on "Our Adventures of Bye-Bye Stinky Poo!"

Potty Time

Call it curious or trying to imitate mommy and daddy, but our little Jelly-Bean asked to use the potty, and actually peed too! This has been happening on and off for the past couple weeks.

Honestly, I am trying to contain my excitement, I do realize that potty-training your child can take a full year.

I finally broke down and bought a potty seat, not one of those stand-alone things you have to clean out, personally I find that offensive...don't get me wrong, I just don't want to clean it out myself. So the seat that I bought fits over our toilet seat. It seems to make sense, if you are out and about are you going to drag a port-a-pot with you? No, well at least I wouldn't.

Right now our daughter is in a classroom (at day care) that doesn't have the capability to potty-train, so we won't be pushing the issue too much. But I will keep you updated on our progress...

Do you have any potty-advice for our little Jelly-Bean?