the potty update--UPDATED FURTHER

For those of you who are interested, here's what's been happening in the potty training adventure the last day and a half. Those of you who aren't interested (and I'm sure there are plenty, because, really, who wants to hear about a two year old's bathroom habits????), you can just skip this post.

Yesterday was a bad, bad day, which is why I didn't post. I was really discouraged because we had many accidents and really no success (unless you count the time she was standing near the potty when she started to go on the floor, and I got her on the potty in time to catch the tail end of it. I still made a celebration of it, because it was the only thing close to success we'd had so far, and the poor girl needed some encouragement, so she finally got her sticker then. But that was the only glimpse of sunshine the whole day). I was ready to give up, especially after her nap when she asked me several times to wear a diaper. I really, really wanted to give in, but I decided to keep trying.

Last night my husband suggested that we try it for one more day to see if there was any improvement, and if there wasn't that we could take a break and try again in a month or so. So I decided to stick it out one more day.

This morning she was dancing around like I saw her doing yesterday just before she started to go (but yesterday it didn't really dawn on me that that's what she was doing). Today I recognized the little dance and put her on the potty. She sat there for a few minutes and all of sudden she stood up with a steady stream down her leg. I don't know if she had started and stood up because it felt funny or if she stood up and then started to go, but at any rate, I said, "No, Rachel! Sit on the potty! Put it in the potty!" She sat back down and finished the job. I was so excited and so proud of her! (Yeah, I know, get a life, Weed! Excited about pee???) I made a huge deal out of it. She finally got the Baby Jaguar sticker she had been hoping for all day yesterday (yesterday she chose Diego, and after that she decided she really wanted the Baby Jaguar one), and she had an ear to ear grin on her face.

Daddy was very excited, too, when he came home for lunch and we told him.

There weren't any accidents this morning, so I'd call it a successful morning! We'll see how this afternoon goes. But I feel much, much better and hopeful today about the whole thing.

UPDATE: 6:55 PM

Guess who just went on the potty two times!? Still no accidents today, either.

So I guess it's good that I didn't give up. Maybe we're getting somewhere!