Operation Potty: Part 2

Day 4:
All morning she was in underwear and pants.
0 accidents!
0 pees in the potty.
0 poos in the potty.
Several attempts on the potty but with no success.
How do I teach her that she doesn't have to squeeze until her face turns purple while trying to make the pee come out?!?

I think she's holding out for the diaper at nap time.
Wet diaper after nap time.

0 pees in the potty.
1 pee in pants just before bed.
0 poos in or out of the potty.

Cassidy was resistant to the idea of sitting on the potty all day.

Day 5:
Underwear and pants all day (with the exception of nap time - wet diaper after nap).
3 pees in the pants.
1 poop in the pants.
1 successful pee on the potty! Cassidy initiated sitting on the potty for this one! I think she's cutting it off before she's done in her excitement to stand up to look because she had an accident shortly after this with a whole lot of pee.

Cassidy was more open to the idea of sitting on the potty today. We still had a lot of "no"s when we asked her to sit on the potty, but some of the time she went willingly.

Operation Potty...In progress?

With a week off for the holidays, I decided to give toilet training a shot.

We introduced the potty chairs months ago, allowing Cassidy to sit on them whenever she wanted, either with or without diaper, and encouraged her whenever she was interested. We only had a couple of times where she actually deposited anything into them, and celebrated excessively each time.

So on tuesday morning, we stripped her down to only a shirt and told her that her peepee and poopoo belonged in the potty. We started out just grand!!

Day 1:

After beginning to pee on the floor several times and cutting herself off mid stream, Cassidy finally ran to the potty chair and made all of her pee into the potty!

We continued with NO accidents and 3 successful pees in the potty for the day!

Day 2:

The success continued ...

We started the day with a successful poop right in the potty chair completely initiated by Cassidy.

2 successful pees in the potty.

1 accident while eating dinner.

1 accident during time out for hitting mommy.

Day 3 (that's today):

Our success completely disintegrated.

Cassidy had absolutely zero interest in even sitting on the potty. Not only is she uninterested, she's defiant and refuses to sit on the potty.

She peed on the floor 3 times, completely emptying her bladder before saying, "Oh NO!" and then running to the potty tracking pee footprints all the way there, only to sit down for about 2 seconds and then pop back up again.

We managed to put 1/2 of her poop in the potty only because I scooped her up mid-squeeze and rushed her there with her whining "NO" the entire way and then holding her on the potty chair while she continued pushing the poop out and whining "NO".

We followed this up with her peeing on the floor during her time-out for biting daddy.

Hmmmph.

I expected this on day 1 or 2, but not after two REALLY successful days! I also expected accidents, but not outright defiance.

So what do I do???? Do we continue with this tomorrow, or decide she's not "ready" and call it quits? Do I chalk it up to a bad day or do we wait until she's in a more cooperative phase? Part of my frustration is that I go back to work on Monday, and daycare doesn't potty train. She needs to be well on her way before leaving diapers, and if she has 2 or 3 accidents in a day, she goes back into diapers. When I asked the daycare workers what they recommend a month or two ago, their only words of wisdom were, "she'll do it when she's ready."

What does that mean!?!

This is learned skill isn't it? Not something she's inately born with and suddenly will reach the milestone whenever she's "ready"? If I was at home with her, I'd just work on it continuously. But I've read that the worst thing you can do is start and stop and do it half way.

So can we do diapers at daycare and just work on it evenings and weekends?

Will that make it harder?

So all of my mommy friends out there .... If you have any words of wisdom on what worked for you, or what you would do, I'd greatly appreciate it! I'm so frustrated, not with Cassidy, but because I don't know how to handle this!

Send me an email. Send me a text. Leave a comment on here.

Please.

Cassidy goes to the Insectarium

We purchased an Audubon membership for the year, which gives us unlimited trips to the zoo and the aquarium, and discount tickets to the Insectarium.

We visited the insectarium where Jeff and Cassidy ate some bugs (I did not).

Cassidy's favorite part..... the fish.

I guess we should have gone to the aquarium!

26 Months -- Weekends at City Park

Thanksgiving Weekend

With Cassidy acting pretty much her normal self on Saturday and Sunday after her surgery, we enjoyed the nice weather at City Park with Nana and Papa!

Surgery Update

Cassidy's surgery went well. Our little girl was hilarious after they gave her the sedative before taking her off to surgery. We told her they were going to give her some "goofy juice" to make her feel funny. I asked how long it would take to work and the nurse said about 10 minutes. Within 2 minutes of the nurse leaving the room, Cassidy started roaring like a lion and thought it was the funniest thing ever.... Jeff and I thought it pretty funny too. I wish I had it on video for all of you to see, but we didn't have the camera with us.

The procedure went well, and the toughest part of the day was when Cassidy woke up post surgery but was still to groggy to console. She was PISSED and ripped the pulse monitor and oxygen monitor off, and made a really good attempt at the IV before we had to pin her arms to her side. Once we got her to drink some juice and got the IV out, she fell asleep in Daddy's arms, slept the whole way home and for a couple hours after that. When she woke up, she ate some ice cream and started jumping up and down.

(No, we didn't lock her in the crate post surgery...

she decided it was great fun to hang out in there with Bilbo who was taking a nap on Baxter's blanket.)

She alternated between sleepy, codeine Cassidy and her normal self for the rest of the day. By Saturday morning, she was her normal self and was off the codeine by Sunday morning.

Unfortunately, she came down with another cold the following week. At her post surgery appointment 3 weeks later, her ears looked great, but she had developed bronchitis again. So we are back to NEB treatments with pulmicort and xopenex 2X each day.