The Potty Chronicles: Update

All day in diapers at school

Evening at Home:

• 1 accident in her pants on the way to the potty (daddy didn't take her request seriously and took their time getting off the bed.)
• a couple of attempts
• 1 pee in the small potty while in time out for hitting Baxter

Yep, we have a potty seat in the time out area - a small baby gated area in her playroom. After Cassidy's first accident in the time out area ended her time out because mommy and daddy were unprepared for the situation, the occurance repeated itself during the very next time out she had. On the second occasion, mommy and daddy were prepared and went to look after the "OH NO!" exclamation from the other room, and then said we'll clean it up after your time out is over. Then we decided we would put her potty seat that she never uses into the time out area, just in case.
Tonight when she peed in her potty and then yelled for us to come look, Daddy went to look and told her, "that's great and we'll celebrate when your time out is over" and then walked away. Cassidy howled but finished her time out, had her time out review, and apologized to Baxter. Then we did the potty dance and she got her stickers, which she decided looked great on Mommy's shirt.
Until the other night, Cassidy's time outs had always been in this gated area because she thought it was great fun for Mommy to sit down next to her and repeatedly make her sit back down ... rather unproductive when she's laughing throughout the time out. However, the other night, Cassidy earned a time out (I think for kicking Sake, or pulling Bilbo's tail, or something pet related after receiving 1 warning.) As soon as I said "time out" she hit the floor right where she was and said, "I time out here." Curiousity got the better of me so I said okay. You need to sit there until the timer beeps. She looked up at me from her seat and repeatedly asked "Beep?" after the first minute, but she sat right there until that timer beeped. She stood up, did the time out review, apologized to whichever pet was the victim, and then continued playing ... my little girl is learning impulse control!!!!