Lila has been very interested in the potty since going to Morristown at Thanksgiving and watching her cousins use the big girl potty.
She started by running into the bathroom and backing up against the toilet and pulling up her shirt. At that point, I would ask her if she wanted to sit on the potty. I knew she wouldn't actually go, but I would put her on there just because she acted interested. Well, recently she has started telling us "Poopie Diaper" all the time. Sometimes she does have one and other times she won't have one until an hour later or so. I started thinking that maybe she is actually telling me BEFORE she actually goes because she feels like she needs to. She is queen of lying down for nap and then waking up in the middle of it with a dirty diaper. SO, I have started asking her if she needs to go to the bathroom while we are eating lunch. I mention it to her several times during lunch and afterwards to get her mind thinking about it so she will go before nap time. So far, this has actually worked and she has taken longer naps! Several weeks ago when she was sick, we found her here:
She was actually wiping her bottom and then putting the toilet paper in the trash can. She managed to pull the whole roll of toilet paper off. She was also saying, "Shoo Wee!"
On Thursday, she said to me several times that she had a poopie diaper. I checked her and she didn't. When I was checking her she said "Poopie Potty" while nodding her head yes. I asked her, "Do you want to poopie in the potty?" She said yes. I took her in the bathroom and sat her on the toilet. She grunted and pushed and even said, "Push it OUT!"
(When she is constipated, sometimes I do the cheer, "Push it out, Push it out, WAAAYY out.") Oh help me, I can't believe I just posted that on my blog. :)
Anyway, back on track. She sat there for a long time and worked and worked. She then said, "All done" and hopped off. I never heard anything come out, but, whatever, she tried, right? So I picked her up with her bottom under my arm and guess what is on me?!?! Yep, you guessed it. She HAD gone. I don't know if it got stuck and it didn't come all the way out or if it startled her when it actually started happening so she hopped off and then went right afterwards. So, does it count? I don't know. I don't want to push it, but others have said maybe I should. What do you think? I just can't imagine that she is REALLY ready to potty train. Oh, and what do you refer to "Poopie" as? I usually just try to say Dirty Diaper, but Lila is big on calling it "Poopie."
Ok, now I am beginning to question whether this post is appropriate at all.
