“YES”…Sort of
We are on day #436 of potty training (or at least it seems).
Here is where we currently stand:
1) Training pant use- 2-3 per day
2) Bribes in rotation: Prunes, granola, and outside play
3) Business #2- fully trained since 18 months
4) Business #1- holding pee throughout the night, and periodically in the daytime
Here is the latest progress:
Me: Honey, do you need to go pee-pee?
Babisodes: Noooo!…..
*Deer in the headlights stare*
…..Uh,… YES!!!!
*runs towards bathroom holding crotch*
Me: Okay honey. Hold it while I unbuckle your pants.
Babisodes: Kay mommy, But don’t feel my underwear O-kay???
*looks down at pee filled underwear*
At least she’s saying “Yes” now…
Baby steps, right? It sounds like she is making progress. I dread having to potty train two at once.
That is an adorable photo of her in the sunhat. I think she has the cutest little nose I’ve ever seen.
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June 17th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
At least she poops on the can. I can’t get mine to do that for nothing.
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June 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Prunes as a bribe, eh?
Still doin’ the diaper thing . . . not at all looking forward to the potty training days.
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Abby took forever too. I finally made up a little chart- I put on a star sticker every time she used the potty and took off a star every time she had an accident. I know they say you are not supposed to punish accidents, but one lost star was all it took. I just said sorry, that is the rule and since she is so ridiculously competitive it finally motivated her. That and the fact that she got a car when she filled her chart.
I am so not looking forward to potty training the second one. Maybe I will just wait until she teaches herself.
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June 17th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
I miss so many things about when my kids were little… potty training is definitely NOT one of them. Good luck… it does finally end.
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June 17th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
That last line is a cute one. Sounds like she’ll have it figured out pretty soon. I know you’re looking forward to that!
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June 17th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Haha! I almost hate to laugh. She is trying so hard! What a sweetie!
And prunes for bribery, huh?
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June 17th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
She’ll come around.
At least the #2 isn’t a problem.
Good luck.
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June 17th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
i hate potty training…she loves to wear big girl underpants but she still like to wet in them too…gotta love being a mom
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June 17th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
oh man. i’m pretty psyched to start after we move next month. even if it’s only for the Business #2, as you called it. I am so tired of being so intimately associated with Isobel’s Business #2
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:24 am
So glad you clarified the #2 thing as the prune bribe had me worried. Oh Sandy, she is SO CUTE!!
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am
You are so enthralling!! LOL!! OMG! You make potty training sound fun!!
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Sandy I promise I’ll get Babisodes the counseling she needs after having her bodily functions serialized for all the world. =)
June 18th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Ok, I think if there’s a Potty Trainer Award of the Year, I will nominate you. All your subscribers will nominate for you.
Err … maybe I SHOULD start one. For your benefit. What do you say?
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:23 am
repeat after me:
this too shall pass. this too shall pass. this too shall pass. this too shall pass. this too shall pass. this too shall pass.
i recommend wine. lots and lots of wine.
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June 18th, 2008 at 3:08 am
thank you for this post.
I was literally in tears yesterday in the 101 degree heat when my Toddler Tornado crapped (yeahIsaidit) her pants.
sigh.
up and at em again today.
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:35 am
It sounds like she’s getting the hang of what she needs to do/feel to be successful, and that’s good.
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Prunes and granola as a bribe? There’s your problem! Use M&M’s!
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:36 am
Too funny! I’ll wait to start this whole potty training thing until your done, so I can learn from you:)
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I will just say one thing. THREE MONTHS of sitting on the cold hard floor of the bathroom reading Green Eggs and Ham while Boo sat on the toilet.
It eventually happened.
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:52 am
That is a really really big deal. STOP playing and go pee. It really really is. I hate to stop work or a movie to go pee..can you imagine being that age?
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June 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am
God, now I’m thinking how did my Mom do it with me, though she keeps bragging it was easy for me…and I love prunes…could be she bribed me with it too?! LOL
Babisodes is sooooo cuuutttteee!!!
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Well, it’s progress. I’d invest in a few pairs of pull on shorts/pants with elastic waists (cheap and cheerful options at Target) and maybe even buy them a size bigger than usual so that they are very easy for her to pull up and down. It made a HUGE difference for my son when he could get his own pants down rather than needing me to undo them. Just a thought…
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
My daughter just could not be bothered. She was doing the poops pretty well – but who cares about wet panties? Then her grandma bought her big-girl silky panties for her birthday (2). I wouldn’t let her wear them because I didn’t want her peeing on me or anything else. “I promise, mommy, I won’t.” And she never did. Back in training pants she would still occasionally wet, but never in the pretty panties.
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I love the don’t look down at my underwear.. hahaha.. I laugh with you not. at you .
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June 18th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Those are days I don’t miss. My niece was so funny… she knew the steps, but not the order, so she’d get that “look”, pull down her pants, try to go tearing to the bathroom, but would trip and fall, and then pee wherever she landed. Fun times.
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
are you sure you aren’t blogging about Lauren??
we are doing pretty good here. knock on wood… and hard!!
Since Sunday no one in our house has worn pull-ups… or diapers of any form… not even me. lol
Brooke is done! She has had ZERO accidents… well except for the time she got up from the dinner table at my parents house and went outside in the grass to pee and peed all over her shorts and undies that were down around her ankles. lol Not sure why she felt the need to go outside instead of in the bathroom…
She has made it through 3 nights without any problems either.
Yippee!!
Lauren is doing good. She is making it most times to the bathroom, but not always.. today she went #2 all by herself on the potty and only called me when she was all done to help her wipe.
THIS. IS. A. HUGE. STEP. for us. 
i’m soo happy about it… but it has happened before and it doesn’t by any means it will happen again tomorrow. unfortunatly. She has wet her bed 2 out of the 3 nights, but we are still trying. 
She doesn’t want a pull-up on b/c Brooke doesn’t wear one… so i’m trying to be very understandable about it and just doing a lot of laundry. lol
one day at a time, one step at a time and thank goodness we know they will not be going off to college in diapers.
good luck. i’m thinking about you every pair of pee-pee undies I wash.
you sister in soiled cloth washing…
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
VIDEOS worked great for my little girl! We had an Elmo Potty training video and Bear in the Big Blue House potty video. Good luck.
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June 18th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
So glad it’s you and not me!!
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June 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Seems like she’s making progress. I have no experience from which to offer suggestions, but I wish you both well.
Hugs and blessings,
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June 18th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
What’s always worked for us- and it takes just a few days- is this:
Ask every 5 minutes “Are your panties dry?” If they are, applaud and make a big deal and just GIVE the bribe item (usually one m&m) the next day it’s every 10 minutes, and then further in between until obviously it’s not necessary anymore.
Praise the dry underpants. it works for us.
BTW- your blog is fantastic, I love the way you write, I can’t wait to see more!
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
All I can say is “don’t worry, she will be potty trained by Kindergarten”…
Parent’s put too much pressure on the kids these days. Relax and let nature take over…
Besides, my daughter’s preschool teacher potty trained her, so there is something to look forward to soon
June 19th, 2008 at 1:09 am