Potty training….

I never thought it would be so hard. I knew it was going to be hard, don’t get me wrong, but I am so drained and it’s only been a few days. Her daycare is doing a great job by keeping her on a schedule, but the mornings and evenings are turning out to be different than we thought. I don’t know what I thought it was going to be like to tell you the truth.


This little girl at first wouldn’t even sit on her little potty at all. Now she won’t get off. She has a complete melt down when she has to get off to go to bed or get ready for school. When she wants to put a pull up on, that’s my sign that she needs to go to the restroom. However, when we tell her that she has to go in her potty she doesn’t want to. She then decides to hold it.
After 30 minutes of asking her to go, we decide to say that it’s time to get ready for school. Here come the water works. She wants to go “potty.” Yet she won’t go. She keeps saying she needs to go but won’t. So it’s a back and forth game in the mornings.


I know there are ways that have worked for other people, but offering stickers or candy or toys don’t really work. I did give her a new toy for going both in her potty on Monday, but since then…….NADA!!


The reason I blog this is because I have started printing out each year of my blog. I have one book so far that I can look back on. I hope one day Ryan and her sibling will appreciate or at least enjoy reading about their lives when they were little.
So I am blogging about this experience.


I do love this age though. She can express herself, talk to us, share stories, sing songs and do lots of things. Her favorite song right now is the Bruno Mars song, Lazy. She likes it because the one time she saw the video she saw monkeys. She calls it the monkey song and can sing some of the lyrics. It’s pretty darn cute.
She is also into puzzles. That’s another struggle at night and in the mornings. We have to ask her to put them up and she will say “One more time.” Of course if she has only put it together once, we say ok to the one more time statement. It’s when we tell her after 4 times and she still wants her puzzles. I love that she loves puzzles. She has gotten pretty good at it too. Granted she works on the same two over and over, but it’s good “figuring out skills.”


Ryan has been keeping her hair in rubber bands more too. After she turned two, she knew how to pull her hair out and would do it everyday. Now that her hair is longer, I need it to stay up. Yes, I bride her with smarties. I have created a monster. It could be worse. Smarties are little and not like a cookie, so yes it could be worse.  I need her to be my girly girl….yet I was a tomboy when I was young so I don’t have room to talk.


I will post more on her progress. I know she isn’t even 3 yet, but she knows what to do, where to do it and has done it before. So I know WE can do this!!!