I think we had our first 100% dry day! There were no accidents and although we slapped on a diaper for the nap & a trip out for dinner, it appears as if the diaper may have been dry after the nap & the dinner too.

This week Addy has been totally consumed with The Potty. Everything revolves around her pee, and I really don’t mean this in a good way. It is exhausting to potty train, how quickly I forgot!!!! There is peeing, then dumping, then washing out the potty, wiping the girl, flushing, waving bye-bye to the pee, returning the potty and of course clapping. Oh the gratuitous clapping!!! Plus the high-fives (Addy calls “high”).

I finally broke down and bought the cushy insert seat for the big potty, so sick am I already of the little one. This was, of course, totally stupid because she can pee just fine in a normal toilet which we learned when we were out last weekend and she needed to pee. Duh. I haven’t done this toddler training thing before, I am still functioning in Big Kid Mode, like I did with my boys, where they could actually get on and off the potty themselves, get their own clothes off, etc.

And Addy spent this entire week peeing what seemed to be essentially non-stop. At one point I started to really consider whether or not she has a health problem, so frequent was her peeing (I’m talking at least every half hour and often much more frequently). So we sent off a culture just to be safe but I think really what’s going on is this girl is DONE with diapers and is extremely excited about peeing. She actually seems to be doing a lot less peeing today, now that the culture is off at the lab. Figures. But on this issue I’d rather be safe than sorry. Just one of the things I really did not have to think much about with my boy-children.

Meanwhile the diapers are strictly a parental crutch. We use them when we go out but she still asks to go to the potty which then involves taking off her diaper so she can pee in the public potties and then replacing it. So it’s sort of dumb. She will still pee in her diaper if she has to but she isn’t happy about it.

I have no idea how to tackle naps and night times. Advice totally welcome. My boys were much older when they PT’d and in some ways, much easier (older, more rational, better comprehension, more dexterous). They were all also still sleeping with me when they PT’d so night times were a breeze. I was in tune to their needs and took them if they had to go. They never had accidents, ever. In fact they were ALL night trained before they were day trained.

But Addy is not only not in our bed but not in our room or even on the same floor as us. Frequently she’ll wake up crying, already wet before we can get up there. We aren’t even sure if she woke up from peeing or woke up becuase she had to pee and then couldn’t hold it. It doesn’t help our prospects of dry nights that she is also still having a few bottles in the night. I have a feeling this nighttime thing will end up being our biggest challenge of all. I just don’t even know where to start.

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