Another Potty Training Update

More tales of poopies and peepee! You've been warned!

Well, we've got #1 under control. We just need to get a #2 in the potty!

Angelica is now using the potty for #1 about 95% of the time. She even wakes up dry MOST mornings! It's amazing. I feel like I'm hardly ever reaching for a diaper anymore...I think the last time I put one on her was the other night when she drank an obscene amount of water before bed.

The last accident I witnessed was on Tuesday when I picked her up at school, and her reaction to it just melted my heart. She was mid-pee when I walked into the room, and she stood up, saw me, and her face turned red from embarrassment and she started to cry. I took her into her classroom (they were out in the big play room) and closed the door, told her it was okay and we'd get it in the potty the next time. My poor sensitive girl!

Then yesterday, she had two poopie accidents during the day. Her teacher told me that after the first one she was embarrassed and started to cry again! But then...with the second...she thought it was hilarious. Maybe she was trying to laugh herself out of feeling sad? Who knows. Maybe the embarrassment will eventually help her get the poopie IN the potty, though.

She does take a LOT of pride in getting to the potty though. She will stop whatever she's doing, yank her pants down and yell, "I gotta go potty! Hurry! Before the peepee comes!" and bolt down the hallway. Then when she actually does go, she'll say, "Look Mommy! I'm doing it!"

She's gone back to using the kiddie pot though..which is fine, she empties it out into the big potty herself and then flushes. Yesterday she even got a piece of toilet paper and wiped it out all by herself! (While I stood next to her and cringed at the thought of her having pee on her hands...) She has no aversion to using a normal potty when we go out places so I guess it's not a bad thing.

I'm proud of my little kiddo. Other than the #2s, I can't believe how easy this has been!

Angelica and Potty Training: An Update

Another potty-training post! If you don't want to read about peepees and poopies, stop here! :)

Angelica continues to amaze us with her potty training ability! She is still not getting her poopie in the potty, but we have been about five days without a peepee accident..including sleeping in her undies the past two nights. At daycare they told me they put her in a diaper for her nap and she peed in it, but I wonder if they had let her go diaperless if she would have held it until she woke up? Either way, I'm so proud!

Much to my surprise, she's started to prefer to use the "little potty" rather than going on the regular one. It was the opposite when she first started potty training. I guess at some point we'll have to make that transition, but she empties her own little potty into the big one so for now I can't complain!

One cute story...I guess at daycare they call underwear "panties" (we call them underwear or undies at home) and her teacher told Scott on Monday that every time they tell her to pull her panties up, she says, "No! I wear UNDERWEARS, not panties!"

While I am proud, it's kind of bittersweet. This is really the last little bit of babyhood she had left and we're saying goodbye to it. I wonder how long before I get bit by the baby bug again...haha.

The Kidney Doctor Follow-Up

Angelica went for her biannual visit to the pediatric urologist, whom I often refer to as "the kidney doctor" because it sounds less sterile and medical. We started out the morning at Arnold Palmer for the renal ultrasound (or, as I told her they were called, "pictures of her tummy") which was accompanied by lots and lots of screaming. You'd have thought someone was stabbing the poor child. She hated ultrasounds when I was pregnant with her too so it's really not surprising. Anytime an ultrasound tech came near my belly (which was a lot, since I was high risk) I could always feel her FLY over to the other side of my stomach. Today I told her that in 25 years she may actually have an experience that would make an ultrasound exciting.

Next we headed over to Nemours, and due to an emergency we had to wait. And wait. Our appointment was at 10:45 and it was close to noon before we were seen. He looked at the ultrasounds and said everything looked good, and...dum dum dum DUM! We now don't have to be seen for another year (instead of six months), unless there's a problem. And, once she's potty trained, we can take her off of the preventative antibiotics. Yippee! He also said unless there's a problem we'll probably skip putting her through another VCUG. Thank goodness. I don't think I have the stomach to watch her go through another one of those procedures.

Speaking of potty training, she's been "practicing". We got her Dora and Minnie Mouse panties but she doesn't seem to quite "get it" yet. She'll wet herself and then ask to use the potty. I think we'll probably revisit it in another few months, to save the expense of doing pee-covered laundry and shampooing the carpet multiple times a day :)

Angelica's Exciting News!

Angelica did not go to bed until almost 11pm last night.

After we did bathtime and got her diaper and pajamas on, we're sitting in her room reading stories and just kind of goofing around like we do every night, when she jumps up and says, "Mommy! Angelica go potty!" and bolts for the door. I open the bedroom door, she runs across the hall, into the bathroom, yanks off her pants and diaper, lifts the toilet lid and says, "Up!"

So I put her on the seat and she sits. And hops off. And jiggles the handle and eventually figures out how to flush. Down goes the water and she cheers and claps, so proud of herself, and then hops right back on the potty.

Let's just say we did the up on the potty-off the potty-flush-back on the potty routine for about an hour.

Finally, she jumps on and actually goes! She jumps off and we cheer, "Yay! Angelica did pee pee in the potty! Woo hoo! Yay!" and she flushes the potty, runs in her room, we put on a diaper and her pajamas and we resume storytime.

My big girl used the potty for the first time!

Angelica's Favorite Videos

I know I've discussed at length Angelica's love for all things Dora, and maybe alluded to her recent love of all things Mickey Mouse. But what you may not know is that she absolutely loves watching videos on YouTube. A few weeks ago, my sister introduced us to some videos that my niece and nephew love, and we had a big danceathon in our playroom as a result. Since then, Angelica asks to watch these videos on a daily basis. I think yesterday we watched the Cat Flushing a Toilet video about 10 times, and the Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom video about 200. (Okay, maybe more like 20 but after awhile it felt like 200!)





Then there is this eerily creepy video of Elmo's daddy teaching him to use the potty that she loves. It must be working because the other night, we were playing and she jumped up, yelled "Angelica go potty!", ran to the bathroom, lifted the toilet lid, yanked off her pants and then proceeded to poop in her diaper. She didn't make it in time (obviously!) but I was so proud of her for knowing she needed to go. Maybe we'll be entering the world of toilet training in the near future...