whatMsg?

What mother of toddlers can write a blog and not include toilet training?  So, we are full force in potty training mode around here and it is an interesting journey that I can’t wait to be over.  It’s exhausting.  Diapers are easier.  Can they just wear diapers and change themselves?  K started going to the potty at 2 years old, for a month.  Then nothing for 7 months until we decided to make another concerted go of it.  3 potties, two toilet inserts, 2 bags of Reese’s Pieces, more than $10 worth of stickers and we are still at it.  K is great with pee pee in the toilet, even public toilets are no problem.  Poop is a whole other matter and she has only gone number 2 three times in the pottie.  The kicker is that A, at 18 months old LOVES the potty and goes kaki (poopie) in the potty but not pee pee.  So there they sit, the ever enthusiastic A who can’t wait to go kaki in the pottie and a reluctant K going pee pee.  It’s the cutest thing when A is sitting on her pottie and grabs the other pottie and tells K to “sit here, right here” and slams the other pottie down right next to her.  Either way, despite it feeling like it’s a bit early, I am regularly working with A on the potty now too since she is interested and excited and I don’t want to miss the opportunity.

So, I figure I’ll keep working at it since between the two of them, I have one fully toilet trained toddler. It might be too much to hope for, but perhaps by the end of the year we’ll be a diaper free house.  (I can’t believe I dared type those words!)

An update since I first wrote this post in the AM- A did her first pee pee in the potty today!   It would be just too weird if my 18 month old is toilet trained before my just about 3 year old.