Potty Training

It has begun! I always told myself I wanted my children potty trained by age 2. And I read about the 3-day method and thought that would probably be the easiest way. If you don't know, the 3-day method is basically letting your child run around naked and correct them to go potty in the appropriate places (potty chair or toilet, whichever you want to use i guess...we are using a 3 step potty chair). But then we learned we are going on leave at the end of June and then again at the end of September. So I figured we'd do it a little here and there and after we get back in October, really kick some butt on it. BUT it's been so hot here and we have no A.C. so I was letting her run around in her diaper....then I brought her potty chair to the living room and took her diaper off and she knew what to do from having done it a few times before. But then she kept doing it. And she I guess she thinks it's fun, because she does it every few minutes....I have no idea if that's normal or not, I need to do some research and ask her pediatrician, but she gets it and I'm so proud! We don't even reward her yet, just a "good job" and "what a big girl!" and she's completely content with that...hopefully that doesn't change but if it does, we'll get some starbursts or something (a few kids I babysat years ago loved that reward for their potty training...one piece for peeing in the toilet, and two for pooping). Anyway she didn't poop at all yesterday so today I figured it would come. And sure enough, standing right next to her potty chair, she goes on the floor lol. Well she hadn't done that on her chair yet so she didn't know what to do with that. When I saw what she was doing I was like "nononononononon Lili! You do that on your potty chair!" So she went and sat on her potty chair. As I was cleaning up I feared she was already done and wouldn't have anything to go in the chair with so I couldn't get excited for her and she'll realize that's where she poops too. But I was wrong, she stood up and there was a little left in there for me haha. So hopefully she'll remember to do all her duties in there too after I got excited. Now the next step is to buy some pull-ups and hopefully that will help her learn when she's dressed to let us know since that's my biggest concern right now. Seeing has how she doesn't even put two words together yet to ask for something or anything like that, I have no idea how she's going to let us know....but we'll figure something out.

So I totally wouldn't be so detailed about pooping haha but, all of you who read this (that I know of anyway) are mothers who are going to be going through this before you know it, or have done it already. :) Don't worry though, I don't have pictures to share...too weird haha.