Mommy Training

I thought about titling this blog entry 'potty training', but realized that the toddler is the one doing the training here.

Monday was a vacation day for Addie and me, since daycare had a professional development holiday. And yes *gripe* we still pay for the day even if its their holiday costing me vacation time. Addie did a great job all day staying dry in her pull-up...expect for number-two's. She's still insistent on wanting to make her number-two's in her diaper/pull-up/underpants. Pretty indiscriminant about the bottoms she goes in, just showing a strong preference over the toilet. A pair of hello kitty big girl underpants have even been sacrificed in this battle. (Yep, cut those off and threw them away. No way I was going to try and salvage. You poop, you lose.)

So late Monday afternoon, after negotiating with Addison for 30 minutes - on the upstairs toilet, on the downstairs toilet, no - back on the upstairs toilet - one piece of candy, fine - two pieces of candy - she made two small poops in the toilet. WooHoo! So proud of my big girl!

We went and got the promised "award" two pieces of candy, which Addie gladly took. All giddy she ran around the corner, came back, smiled at me, and promptly filled her pull-up with poop. Ugggghh.