Sunday, January 04, 2009

t-minus 11 hours and counting...

...until we embark on the potty training adventure of 2009.

Starting tomorrow morning there will be no more diaper changing.... just messes to clean up. I've contemplated just letting her run around with no pants on, but I don't think she'd like that very much, so I'll put her in her cloth training pants (she calls them "big girl pants") and we'll see what happens. I have apple juice boxes for her to have to make her have to go more often, (these are a big treat because she normally only drinks milk or water, and she loves the boxes) and I plan to put her on the potty every 30 minutes so she can hopefully have some success. It's going to be a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooong day, but hopefully by doing it this way, instead of with pull ups, she'll get the idea faster, since who wants to wear wet underwear????

Make that a loooooooooooooooooooong week: I've purposely left this week's schedule clear, and my one agenda item is to stay home and put her on the potty. Anything else that gets done is icing on the cake, in my mind. Wish us luck. Here we go!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good luck! I hope it goes well and she gets the hang of it quickly!

Emily said...

That's so funny! I was going to start today, too, but then we had a crazy day yesterday and I decided to give myself another day to decide exactly what we're going to do. I think it will be pretty similar to your ideas.