after watching her big brother and sister use the potty since early july, marin has been following them into the bathroom every time they go. she has even pulled down her pants, pulled off her diaper and sat on the potty. the method that we used recommended starting potty training at 22 months. well, marin is about a week away so we decided to just do it. day 1-put all diapers in a bag to give to a "baby" who needs them. put big girl panties on marin and tell her to let us know when she has to pee. that's all! not so much.
see my princess panties?
mommy and daddy don't want me on the couch at this time. but i think i'll get on it anyway!
day 2-lots of fluids so i will go peepee. are they crazy? why not just stop and make a fun puddle right on the floor? i can even slide in it!
day 3-after going two whole days not getting even a drop of pee in the potty marin finally went three times. the last time she even went in the bathroom herself, pulled down her panties and went without telling anyone. i was helping ellory get ready for bed and all of a sudden heard the "sound" and assumed she was peeing in the hallway. don't get me wrong-she had plenty of accidents today. and i really wanted to go outside and scream at the top of my lungs. but instead i was just grumpy with all the kids. poor things. grumpy is probably putting it nicely. :) i tried to not have high expectations but we really really thought she was going to be the easiest to train. but i have confidence that she will eventually get this. and i will be able to get out into the world again. today while the kids were napping, i was going through a box that hadn't been unpacked yet. in one envelope were all of the ultrasounds that i had taken. the ones where the babies went to be with Jesus early on and the ones of marin that kept showing a baby getting bigger and bigger. i wept as i thanked God that marin was here for us to potty train. i guess i'll cut her a little slack. :) we love you marin.
after watching her big brother and sister use the potty since early july, marin has been following them into the bathroom every time they go. she has even pulled down her pants, pulled off her diaper and sat on the potty. the method that we used recommended starting potty training at 22 months. well, marin is about a week away so we decided to just do it. day 1-put all diapers in a bag to give to a "baby" who needs them. put big girl panties on marin and tell her to let us know when she has to pee. that's all! not so much.
see my princess panties?
mommy and daddy don't want me on the couch at this time. but i think i'll get on it anyway!
day 2-lots of fluids so i will go peepee. are they crazy? why not just stop and make a fun puddle right on the floor? i can even slide in it!
day 3-after going two whole days not getting even a drop of pee in the potty marin finally went three times. the last time she even went in the bathroom herself, pulled down her panties and went without telling anyone. i was helping ellory get ready for bed and all of a sudden heard the "sound" and assumed she was peeing in the hallway. don't get me wrong-she had plenty of accidents today. and i really wanted to go outside and scream at the top of my lungs. but instead i was just grumpy with all the kids. poor things. grumpy is probably putting it nicely. :) i tried to not have high expectations but we really really thought she was going to be the easiest to train. but i have confidence that she will eventually get this. and i will be able to get out into the world again. today while the kids were napping, i was going through a box that hadn't been unpacked yet. in one envelope were all of the ultrasounds that i had taken. the ones where the babies went to be with Jesus early on and the ones of marin that kept showing a baby getting bigger and bigger. i wept as i thanked God that marin was here for us to potty train. i guess i'll cut her a little slack. :) we love you marin.
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oh this is not good news for us. we keep saying, 'sam is going to be so easy to potty train.' hope you guys have a wonderful thanksgiving. bekah
I wish we had a picture of her dinner time potty activity! :o)
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