Potty Training

So the funniest thing happened tonight. Just to back up a little, my efforts to potty train Bryn at 19 months back in March was unsuccessful. After two days she refused to have anything to do with panties or the potty. So I put the potty away and thought that maybe she might forget about the horrible two days. Every now and then I would ask her if she wanted to wear her character panties. We had gotten her every character she loved from Tinkerbell to Little Mermaid to Minnie Mouse. She absolutely refused and cried for a diaper. I was a little frustrated but because she wasn't even 2 yet, I wasn't horribly pushy. I especially wasn't pushy because Bryn has chronic diarrhea. She has episodes up to 10 times a day with doubled over pain. I didn't know how I was going to potty train with that extremely frustrating issue.

So back to tonight... I was putting Bryn to bed an hour later then normal and I was changing her slightly wet diaper. She said "no diaper, panties!" I was shocked. So I got some out and let her pick between her new Minnie ones. She is very particular about every piece of clothing she wears. If she doesn't want to wear something she fights you until you finally give up and not put it on her. So she picked a pair of panties and then I started thinking "now what? it's time for bed. NICE timing of course" So after I put the panties on her that hung on her little bum, she told me she wanted to go show daddy and Aiden. She seemed very proud. I let her run up stairs to show them. On the way she found her potty training doll that we had gotten her for her birthday. She grabbed it and put some panties on the baby and said "baby go potty too mommy." After she showed Ben, she came back downstairs and grabbed the baby's potty and went to stick it by hers in the bathroom. Then she put the baby on the potty and then she sat on the potty (with her panties down of course). I was very surprised.

Ben let the baby do her thing so Bryn could see. Bryn got excited and wanted to dump the water out of the baby's potty. I told her that the baby gets a potty treat for going potty. I put a sticker on the baby. Then Bryn got excited and said "My turn" She didn't end up going but the concept was there. I put her to bed and 5 minutes later she yelled for daddy. He took a minute of course to go to her but when he did she told him "need to go potty, daddy" She got up and ran to the bathroom. She of course didn't make it in time because it was ANOTHER bowel movement, but I was excited that she told him she had to go. Who knows if she would have made it if he had been a little faster, but oh well.

Now why she picks at 9:00 at night to decide she wants to wear panties and be a big girl is beyond me, but at least it's finally happening. Now I am not sure what to do with the constant bowel movements but maybe she can get used to potty training with that issue. We shall see.