How did this happen, you ask?
Thursday morning she woke up and said, "I want to try and use the potty, really fast!"
So she took off her pull up, sat on the potty and peed. She had the long-promised ice cream sandwich for breakfast and we were off for the day. Then she did it again, all by herself when I thought she was asleep for her nap.
"Mommy! Come and see the pees!" Gladly.
The next day she used the potty first thing in the morning again. With success. And every other time she needed to go. Dry pull-ups all day.
On Saturday, she tried to pee at gymnastics, went successfully at the brunch restaurant and then several times at her cousin's house.
Now she either tells me when she has to go or uses the potty on her own and then calls me over. I'm guessing we will soon be transitioning into full time underwear at home and then, well, everywhere. And I'm thinking the poop situation will work itself out. She puts her own pull-up on if she has to do that anyway.
How did this happen?
I knew, intellectually at least, that Will would start to use the potty when she was ready. But it was just taking so much longer than I expected. Everyone told me she would go when she was ready. People suggested that waiting for her to do it on her own would be better than trying to make her (and she couldn't be forced anyway).
Yeah. Those people were all right. And I didn't do anything. She just decided.
Maybe one day I'll have a chance to look into an anxious mother's eyes and tell them the same advice. And like me, she probably won't believe me.
But for now, I'm giddy with relief.
1 comment:
See, everyone says that, but my son is so damn LAZY, that I was seriously afraid if I didn't take the bull by the horns, he'd be in fifth grade, still wanting a diaper.
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