potty update

The weekend we were up at the lake. Everything was busy and new. She wanted to go go and keep playing. She would still "sit" on the potty in the morning, before nap, after snack, supper, and bedtime....but she would sometimes sit for 2 minutes and sometimes 5. Since being back at home for less than 48 hours she has been more than willing to go sit on the potty for long periods of time (sometimes 2 minutes up to 25 minutes when I tell her were done all done trying). We look at books, play, talk, and eat cookies or popsicle. She has gone pee on the potty two different times, both times being in the morning after she wakes up. After she went pee, we put her diaper back on...within an hour she had peed more in her diaper. I even thought she peed ALOT in the potty. I'm thinking we will need to add in another time in the morning, because the time from waking up to before nap is a long time to hold it/not try. :)  Today after lunch, she sat on the potty for about 25 minutes and then I told her we were all done. She immediately stood up, picked up her diaper and handed it to me. As I proceeded to put the diaper on her, she then sat up in my lap and I felt warmness rush into her diaper!!! That stinker!! Oh the joys of potty training.

Someone suggest to me that kids will purposely hold there pee on the potty until you put a diaper back on because that is their security. They've been used to peeing in that thing for the past year. I was doing some reading at http://pottytrainingearly.com/ and they have two different methods of potty training. One allows your child to go bottomless for a few days or wear underwear...then they lose that security feeling of the diaper. You are prone to have accidents the first days but I guess they say it works.

I talked with our child care provider today as I figured she was going to think we were nuts for doing this. Audrey is starting child care when school starts and I'm subbing. But she was completely on board with it. Plus it helps that her numbers wouldn't be too big right when school starts as a handful of kids will be headed back to school. So time will tell how this will contiune to go....but I'm hopeful. I'm not anywhere near ready to "give up." As that will only make it more challenging later I hear.

:)