Day Four of “Just One Day” Potty-Training
Jul 8th, 2008 by susan
…the saga continues!
Day Four of potty-training again met with mixed success. On the previous evening Keilani watched a DVD that we had purchased called “Potty Power
This video really upped Keilani’s motivation and on Day Four she wanted to wear her “Big Girl” underwear and really worked hard to make it to the potty all day. I am very proud of her—she only had two accidents and multiple successes!
It was also the first day we ventured out of the house for more than an hour—we ended up going to the Bay Area Discovery Museum at the last minute (amazing place if you have never been!) and I quickly packed up all of the potty essentials (multiple changes of clothes—check, towel for the carseat—check, portable toilet seat—check, sense of humor for all of the anticipated accidents—check!).
Keilani is definitely getting the hang of holding her pee in (almost too well I think, but more on that later…) and she actually peed successfully in the potty at the museum! By the way, this is a HUGE workload for the parent if you are also carrying around another infant—Keilani’s little sister was snug in the Baby Bjorn and while wearing her I had to pick up Keilani, RUN her and Malia across the grounds to the nearest bathroom, climb over a small fence to avoid running all the way around on the path (she would never have made it), lug the portable toilet seat out of the potty bag (yes, we still have a “diaper” bag, except now it is a “potty” bag), and finally squat down on the nasty bathroom floor to cheer Keilani on. Whew. And did she pee in the potty?
NO! FALSE ALARM! Sigh.
However, the NEXT time she DID! SUCCESS! I was so proud of her—her very first successful pee outside of the house!
Now if we could just get her to poop in the potty instead of on Mommy and Daddy’s bed…
