I’m not sure if you can even count today as day 1 for Ellie, but I would say we had over a half a day of potty training and I am already exhausted! now I am just going to say I am not 100% ready for this, but I am giving it a go the best that I can. this means I will not be staying completely home for 3 days, following her around with an apron full of various snacks, putting her to bed in underwear, etc. but I will put her in underwear when she wakes up, encourage her to stay dry, ask her frequently to go potty, reward her, go a few places as we need to, see what happens.
this all started about a week ago when throughout the day ellie and claire would start taking off all their clothes, pulling up their onesies, taking their diapers off, running around naked. ellie had actually approached me a few times before going to the bathroom trying to communicate that she had to go. all signs would say SHE is ready, but I WAS NOT! so I put it off for a few days, but after realizing that she might pass this stage by and then really start making me pay for it when she is 3 or so – I decided to try for a bit.
when we got back from the rac this morning I put ellie in underwear and decided to stick it out for the rest of the day and evening. at first there was a ton of novelty with her and claire running around the kitchen naked. I was trying to get them to put underwear on, but they loved being naked instead (they aren’t allowed to leave the kitchen without underwear or diapers on). ellie is REALLY good about being able to go pee when she wants to. she even goes to the potty and pulls her underwear down and goes. she struggles with being able to let it ALL go. so she will do little dribbles over and over. like honestly going and then getting up and then coming back 10 times. I think she is just trying to figure it out. I am hoping when the novelty wears off it will become more normal to empty her entire bladder. any suggestions for how to get this to happen? email me!
today she did pretty well considering. probably only 1-2 accidents. one time where she started to go then realized she was going – stopped and ran and finished on the potty. when in the bath tub she got out 5 times to take the tinest tinkles on the potty – but she knew she had to go, held it and went. that shows me she can do it – just getting her to put it together. at nap she wanted her underwear to stay on so I just put a diaper on over them. at night I put a diaper on her right before she went to bed. she asked to get out of her crib when I was leaving the room to go tinkle and I took her and she went the most at one time that she has all day – hopefully this does not become a stalling technique.
here are some photos from the last few days where little girl undies have entered our home.
when laura was here we went to target to get some underwear and the girls tried them out for a bit. ellie liked to gather all her things before sitting on the toilet. 
ellie insisted on putting every pair of underwear we had on.
here are some pictures from today.
this is before nap. ellie was jacked up from fruit snacks. she was doing down dogs under the table to avoid her sleep sacks.
love those little thighs!
come on ellie!
claire is such a good sister. she hangs out around the two potties. she sort of wants to go on the potty and sort of doesn’t. she has the hardest time actually going on the toilet so I am waiting with her, but trying to be sensitive to the fact that ellie is getting a lot of attention.
you see a lot of naked little butts around here these days.
putting their babies down for naps.
having her baby go potty too.
wish us luck. I think she is physically ready, but we’ll see how it goes!
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