Potty Training Success!

Natalie has done so great potty training!  I’m truly amazed!  I mentioned earlier that I ran out of diapers and decided to train her last Monday after nap.  By day 3, she was telling us when she had to go pee pee!  She’s had a total of 3 night accidents out of 9.  I’m so proud of her!!  She hasn’t had a day accident in several days.  The only issue we have is pooping.  She goes on the potty..but we have to sit her on the pot and leave her alone for a few minutes…and she doesn’t like to go.  She has not “told” me she has to go, she just comes to me and says, “OUCHIE!” while holding her hiney and walking like a duck.  Natalie has always eaten oatmeal for breakfast and lots of high fiber foods…therefore has always had soft bowel movements at least once or twice a day.  Most days she is now going once.  It’s got to be a hard transition!

Like I mentioned before, we used the “3 day Potty Training” e-book method.  I used it with Cole after we tried everything and it did a good job day training him (never really got far in the night training).  We used lots of stickers for Natalie (one for each pee and 2 for each poop).  We gave her a “Pinkalicious” dress up dress for going poop on the potty twice.  After about 4 days and 3 rewards…she got tired of the stickers and acted like she was going to stop training!  I started a BIG potty chart and now she is working towards getting a new Cinderella dress up dress.  Cole’s rewards were trains and Natalie’s are all about princesses…typical!

Here are some fun pics of Natalie’s potty chart (filled up within 2-3 days!) and her new Pinkalicious dress.  Can you tell she loves it?  She wears it all day everyday!