SOPHIE'S SNAZZY POTTY & Update!

Sunday Night Update: This girl amazes me! She has had on the same pair of regular underwear (There's an elephant on her rump, if you'd like to know which pair!), since this morning! They're dry. She has gone potty so many times, all by herself. I'm not even asking her to go every 1/2 hour, she's just telling me, 'me go potty' and she does it by herself. She even dumps the little potty into the big one! She was out playing on the sandpile for awhile today, and a couple times came inside to tell me she had to pee. She did, and went back out to play. I know from potty training my 2 other kiddos that usually they get busy and miss the signal, or forget to go. This hasn't happened yet. I am so proud of my BIG GIRL!



Here's the potty Sophia's using. CLICK HERE to read more about it. It talks, it 'flushes', it spits out reward stickers. It's a snazzy potty! We've actually shut off the sound. It senses when she sits on it, and starts yapping and singing. I guess we didn't need quite all the bells & whistles!


Here's Sophia pointing at all the stickers she's earned today! She loves to put them on the poster herself. What a difference a 1/2 a day makes! As you can tell from my last post, I was concerned Sophia physically wasn't ready. I had run out of the thicker crotched cotton undies, and put her in a regular pair, and a pair of tights. All her pants were in the wash from this morning.

Just a few minutes after I posted that frustrated blog, she was standing beside me, and said, 'Me gotta pee'. She ran into the bathroom, and sat on the potty. I followed. I thought she had peed in her pants again, and her wet underwear was the cue she had to pee, a little too late. Much to my excitement and surprise, her underwear was dry, and she had gone on the potty. YAHOO! Could it be???

I had to run over to the church and then the grocery store, and left her w/Dad. I called in between errands, to see how she'd been doing. Ted informed me she went on the potty again! Still wearing the same, dry underwear! She told him 'me go potty', and he offered to help her. "no, me do it me-self' and she did! Yahoo! By the time I actually got home, she'd gone again.

It's 9pm, and it's about time for her to go to bed. Same pair of underwear, still dry. I will put on her 'nighttime underwear', and she's off to bed. And to think I almost bought diapers at the store tonight!!!!! I really need to learn patience...