We started ‘potty training’ Jaia a looooooong time ago.\u00a0 I highlight the words potty training here because that isn’t exactly what it was.\u00a0 Well, there was potty, but no training.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 We never wanted to pressure her and we figured that when she was ready, she’d let us know.\u00a0 But to help the situation a long just a little bit we\u00a0got the\u00a0idea to buy a potty and just leave it in the bathroom for her to get used to.\u00a0 But there she was, at 16 months old (or maybe even earlier), checking it out, wanting to sit on it and the odd time even using it the way a potty should be used.<\/p>\n
But then came the revolt – which happened to fall exactly around the\u00a0time that we moved to a new house.\u00a0 ANY interest she had been showing over the weeks previous was *POOF* gone.\u00a0 She wouldn’t even look at the potty.\u00a0 It was like it was an old friend that had done her wrong.\u00a0 She wanted nothing to do with it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So we waited.\u00a0 And every once in awhile she’d ask, sit, but she clearly wasn’t interested yet.\u00a0 And we didn’t want to push.\u00a0 And then, as soon as she’d start to show signs…..we’d go away on vacation.\u00a0 And after a few days of a messed up routine, the potty training fell off her radar again and we’d have to start fresh…again.<\/p>\n
That is, until about a month ago.\u00a0 The regular morning pee in the potty turned into using the potty at daycare and some potty time in the evening.\u00a0 And over the past couple of weeks, she’s started to ask for it, even if it wasn’t directly in view.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And yesterday, we threw caution to the wind and went all out for a diaper-free day.\u00a0 No diaper at nap time, none when we took Humph on a long walk and none when we went grocery shopping.\u00a0 No accidents.\u00a0 And you should have seen her go.\u00a0 It was like she suddenly tasted freedom for the first time because she did nothing but run – almost all day long, reflected in her sleeping straight through from 7:30 pm to 8:30 am this morning.<\/p>\n
I can’t claim that she’s officially<\/em> potty trained.\u00a0 She could probably last most nights without a diaper, but I’m not ready to take that chance just yet.\u00a0 One small goal at a time.\u00a0 And for right now I’m just pleased as punch that our day and evenings together will soon no longer be spent changing dirty diapers but rather running around enjoying life without having to deal with them at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We started ‘potty training’ Jaia a looooooong time ago.\u00a0 I highlight the words potty training here because that isn’t exactly what it was.\u00a0 Well, there was potty, but no training.\u00a0 At all.\u00a0 We never wanted to pressure her and we figured that when she was ready, she’d let us know.\u00a0 But to help the situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[26,29,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}