Umm wow..

How can such a little being have so much poop? And I don't mean in her panties, doodlebug came to me and took me to the potty, I pulled her panties down and she sat down. I fully was expecting her to pee because she'd just had a full sippy of water with her afternoon snack of popcorn, but the smell told me pretty quickly it was not pee.

This is her 2nd time pooping in the potty and very much bigger then the last time. Yesterday? Or the day before when she pooped it was just teeny (I can't believe I'm describing the size of my daughter's poop!) but today was quite the bowel movement. And sadly, I'm disappointed that O was not home from work yet to witness this great accomplishment. hah

I have to say I'm a) super impressed that she does not seem to have a problem (so far) with pooping in the potty and b) quite happy at how little wiping/clean up it is after a poop in the potty vs when she does in her diaper. I think by the end of the week I just might be brave and let her outside the house in panties.

She did well this morning before gymboree as well, had a pee in the potty, zero accidents and then went into a diaper just before class. I started to debate whether I should keep her in panties, but when one little girl had an accident during class I was kind of happy she was 'leak' proof in her diaper.

We really have not had any particular method. I had the 3 day potty training book but lost it. So basically this is what we did last week;

- Put panties on her and told her if she had to pee or poop to let us know
- Did not put her in pants, just dresses or tshirts
- gave her 2 jellybeans as a reward for peeing or pooping
- the first few days asked her constantly "Do you have to pee or poop?" and sat her on the potty a lot after she had a lot to drink
- Put her back in diapers for naps (she still naps 3hrs a day) and bedtime even though I've read you should do it all at once.

And that's pretty much it. :0) The first day we went through 15 pairs of panties! I think she learned by day 2 to "hold" it in a bit instead of doing wee pees every 20 mins, because I noticed on day 2/3 she was not peeing as much and at first I thought she was holding it in waiting for her nap time to get put in a diaper. By day 2 she only had 4 accidents. This week (so far) she has had one instance where she has peed just a bit in her panties before running to the potty. This seems normal for kids who are 100% potty trained though from what I've read. They get so occupied with what they are doing that they wait too long.