Three days of pee pee!

I can't tell you how excited I am to report that Kezzie is getting it! I woke up Monday morning (5/18/09) and just decided in a split second that that was going to be the day I start potty training! I don't know what came over me but it seemed right! I prayed a quick prayer about it asking for patience and peace about starting it and I really felt complete peace about giving it a shot. At a little under 18 months old I was thinking I may be crazy but Kezzie has really been giving me all the signs that she is ready. So with that said I went in and got her out of her crib and immediately took off her diaper. I love this 'no pants' method. It worked fantastic for Austin when he was being potty trained at a little over 18 months too! The only time they wear a diaper is during nap and bed. So as the morning progressed, we had about 5 accidents and 1 success. I was feeling a little ridiculous but told myself I was going to give it the full three days of strict house arrest before giving up. I laid her down for her morning nap and never heard a peep out of her. She slept for an hour and a half! When she woke up, she was completely dry. I put her on the potty and she went! A little bit later she even told me she had to poop and then proceeded to do that in the potty too! The day went so much better than expected. Kezzie continued to have very few accidents and the successes eventually outweighed the accidents more then I could count. After supper time, she had zero accidents and even went right before bed.

5/19/09 Tuesday was equally impressive. I really thought Kezzie wasn't going to have anything to do with the potty today but it turned out she just needed a little time to wake up and wasn't really in the mood to be whisked out of her crib and immediately put on the potty. Could I blame her?!! The rest of the day was incredible. Again she woke from her 1.5 hour morning nap dry. She had one accident the whole day which also consisted of two poops on the potty! On Monday, I definitely needed to be right by her making sure she wasn't peeing. She would actually pee about every 20-30 minutes so I really had to watch the time. But by Tuesday she had already stretched out the intervals anywhere from 1-3 hours. I didn't feel like I needed to watch her half as much! Plus, I felt like I was able to see signs of her detecting she needed to go. Poop was a no brainer because she tells me, but when she needs to pee the only way I can tell is she gets really quiet, stops playing, and just gives me this look. A few times she has even looked down like she is getting this alarming feeling! Hopefully it won't be long and she will start telling me she needs to go...this is the goal, right? Total for the day we went through one diaper...Way to go Keziah!

5/20/09 Now today...she woke up with a very wet diaper. Not a huge surprise and actually very much to be expected. She didn't pee her first pee until almost 1.5 hours out of her diaper. She must have just gone in her diaper :( Then I did get her to pee once before I was going to lay her down for a nap at 9 but at about 9:40 I heard her still playing quietly and I went upstairs to find that she had peed and pooped in her diaper (not consistent with the two previous days). I thought this was why she wasn't falling asleep so after changing her diaper I put her back to bed. At 10:15 I finally went and got her out of bed since I didn't want her falling asleep at that point. I brought her downstairs, took off her diaper only to find she peed even more :( . This was a bit discouraging but then she did have a couple successes before eating lunch (for meal time I just put down a hand towel on a regular chair-not her high chair-I can't see what's going on in there and it's harder to get her out if I can tell she needs to go). After lunch she had her first accident of the day, she completely emptied herself on the floor. I know she's going to have accidents but at this point in the day I am feeling really discouraged. After the morning we had with diapers I felt like she just wasn't getting it but then I think about where we have come from Monday and I realize she is doing wonderful. I pray again and all day for patience and peace that this is the right thing to do for her and I do feel like it is. It is just hard to keep going when you don't know if it's working! I got her to go potty on request before nap time this afternoon. I was really excited about that and it gave me hope again! We will see what the afternoon brings! Maybe we will even be able to go outside for a little bit this afternoon! I will keep you posted on the progress she is making!