Way After The Fact
Friday, September 28, 2007 at 05:00PM This post is about things that happened in the past (how’s that BubandPie?). I have been meaning to write about how we started to potty train Piper.
Well, it was the new daycare, really. They are eager beavers when it comes to this sort of thing. So two weeks ago, they began with the potty training stuff. Sure, I went out and bought the little training undies and the plastic panty covers. I sent Piper to school with five changes of clothes each morning. I did everything they asked.
Except potty train her.
The minute we would get her home, we would throw a diaper on her. The kid wasn’t ready, I would say. She has no control over her bodily functions, I insisted. Every day we got a plastic bag of soiled clothes coming her with her. Enough times to convince me that she just wasn’t ready. And frankly, I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t ready to clean up accidents all night long. That was the last thing I needed to add to my already busy and hectic evenings.
I meant to post about this, really I did. I kept insisting she just wasn’t ready and the bags proved my point.
But then the other day, Piper put her little hand in mind and asked me to take her to the potty. When I took her diaper off, it was completely dry. She proceeded to sit on the potty and do her thang. Then it happened again. And again. And again.
I meant to post about this too, I really did.
This week there were no plastic bags of clothes coming home with her. In fact, they gave me back the extra sets stating they didn’t need them anymore. Tonight they are giving me back my stash of diapers.
It’s like over. She did it! She is potty trained! (more or less, still wearing the diapers overnight though)
And here I am posting about it now. Only I can’t bitch about it now because it’s already a done deal. It seemed to happen so fast. We really only have her for a few hours after work and before she crashes, so a week goes by pretty quick when you are talking about a pee here, a pee there.
But I can brag about it now, right? My little one is all grown up wearing big girl panties now! I have a right to brag even if I had nothing to do with it, stuck in denial while she worked hard all on her own.
And yet, I am sort of sticking to my guns here. I still don’t think she’s completely ready just yet. In my opinion, they aren’t fully ready until the day they can walk up the steps on their own, reach the light switch, do their thing without spillage, sufficiently wipe all traces clean, flush, wash their hands without creating a mini flood and then get back down the steps alone in the dark.
That’s when they’re ready!
I have to say, potty training our daughter didn’t turn out to be that hard for us, but having a potty trained daughter is a lot of work!
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Also way after the fact is my heartfelt thanks to Slackermommy for handing me the Nice Matters award! I am passing it on to these nice people!
Radical Mama, Stolen Moments and Lawyer Mama. Although I have to say everyone that comments here is very nice and it does matter. So consider me passing it on to you too.
Reader Comments (10)
Thanks for the award! :-)
And congrats on the potty training. You can be proud even though you had nothing to do with it *LOL*
My youngest daughter was potty trained at 18 months. It was all her....I was so not ready for her to give up the diapers.
it's amazing, isn't it...all of a sudden...poof. they are grown up.
and i miss the diapers, but don't tell anyone.
I'm jealous. I would so love my 2 year old boy to be potty trained already!
The daycare potty trained both of my boys. I had nothing to do with it. Welcome to the wonderful world of knowing where the bathroom is in all public places.
I hate people that have potty training stories like this! Where are the tears? Where are the months of accident torture? Is it wrong that I want you to suffer the way I did? (hee-hee)
Seriously, congratulations on this milestone!
My girls were easy like that. My son? Not so much.
Congratulations, Piper!
Argh, my girl had it licked and now god only knows when she'll get back on the pot. Dang regression. And the most pathetic part of it all is that I am keen to see her wearing the little panties. That's the big pay off for me. My girl in little panties. Awwww.
Congrats to Piper.
Awww, thank you!
I have to say that Hollis's potty training was very similar. I think his sitter did all the hard work for me!
Hi Momish-
I have to say that my Peanut has not quite got the potty thing down yet... so 'good on ya' to Piper. The Peanut tells me she wants to "doe pee on da potty", and will even strip down nekkid and sit on her potty, but she always ends up peeing on my floor!
But now that Piper is trained, you will learn where every freaking public toilet is in every freaking public place you go to. And you will learn who's toilets are cleaner than others'. Good luck!
Wow, thanks. I have to say, that is one award I never thought I would get! ;)