- She does great during the day and mostly crappy at night, which is to be expected. Most nights she wakes up wet at 12:15 a.m. I change her, and then she wakes up dry at about 5:30 a.m. The last few nights she has had other accidents at night. I think she is testing me because she wants to get out of bed at 4:30 or 5:30, and after two or three mornings of that I about died. So, I think it is a little about the power struggle, which is a 2-year-old issue and not a potty issue. It will work its way out.
- More and more I understand the philosophy of not making your child "try" to go pee. Quinn almost never releases pee if it was my idea. This makes it tricky to leave the house because it makes more sense to have her pee and then get in the car. But so be it. My sister's daughter forgets to go pee because she is wrapped up in playing, so Kristie offers one M&M for trying and another if she gets some pee-pee in the potty. That might work. We'll see. I'll have to use fruit snacks, of course, because Quinn wakes up asking for fruit snacks (and chocolate milk.)
- So, we are official a travel bus. By travel bus, I mean we have a potty in the back of the car. When Quinn has to go, I just pull over, and she pees. She is not at all comfortable with the big potty yet, so potty chair it is. It doesn't bother me. I am just proud of her for going in the car like that at all. It sure beats a wet car seat. I just barely got the cat pee smell out of one of our car seats a few weeks ago. I'd like to keep it dry. Nice work, Quinn.
- Again, as for daytime, Quinn seems to really get it. She still has some accidents, but they are mostly just that -- accidents. For example, she was jumping up and down like a crazy lady, and she peed. Then yesterday she was playing in someone's backyard with water and she peed. Accident. She still has to learn how her body works.
- Her favorite panties are her Sesame Street panties that have Abby on them.
- Price Break down: So I figure, I will not make profit on potty training for a few months. I had to spend a lot of money to get things started:
30 pair for panties: $30
Candies and rewards: $20
So much juice: $10
Detergent and dryer sheets: $5
Potty Training book: $40
- This all adds up to at least a few months of Costco diapers, but I figure, if I waited a few months to potty train her, I would have paid for diapers for those months and eventually had to pay for all of this.
- I've always said I didn't care if Quinn was potty trained. I was planning to wait until Christmas. But it has been fun, and it worked out great.
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