Haha sometimes I have a little too much fun naming these posts. This weekend Brad and I both had Good Friday off (thank you Bible Belt) so I decided I would use this 3 day weekend to potty train Tacy. I read up on blogs, talked to my mom, etc to try and prepare myself. Brad had gotten invited to go the beach with a couple different friends from school (by invited I mean our whole family was invited) and while that would have been fun, I knew I really needed to potty train. So I put fun aside and put on my mommy jeans.
We did kick off the weekend by going shopping for Tacy. Every spring and fall we have to buy her new shoes and clothes because she has outgrown her shoes/clothes and it's a new season. So we bought her some shorts and t-shirts. I did look at some shoes, but I'm so cheap and seriously, she grows out of them so fast so I'm just going to get her some sandals at Walmart and hopefully find some good new church shoes for her and call it good because spending $10 or less on shoes is much better than $25. After the shopping we went and watched Cinderella. I figured this was good movie to take Tacy to see since she LOVES princesses. I was a little worried about how she would handle a movie theatre and sitting still in one seat, but we got popcorn and she did pretty good. It was disappointing that 11 was the earliest movie we could find. So the movie pushed her nap back, which led her to be a little tired. She was so excited by Frozen Fever (we hadn't told her she would see Anna and Elsa). Frozen Fever was really cute and funny. I let Tacy wear her Elsa dress to the theatre too. She got a little scared when Cinderella started, not because of the movie itself but because of the dark theatre from the dimming house lights. But she sat on her seat for half the movie and then sat on my lap the rest of the time. She says she loved the movie. I thought it was really good. As soon as the movie was over Tacy asked to go home and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with strawberries. Ha ha my sweet girl is easy to please. But she passed out in the car and was taken right to bed. When you ask her about Cinderella she will tell you "Cinderella mom broke shoe!" or "Cinderella mom broke dress!" Apparently the evil step mother really stuck with Tacy so we keep talking about the importance of being nice to people (courageous and kind is a little over her cute head right now).
After her nap I took off Tacy's diaper and let her be in the kitchen naked from the waist down. Tacy thought it was a little wierd but was okay with it after a while. We played games (thank goodness for the games/toys my mom sent her for easter). I kept trying to ask her if she needed to go potty, and we sat on the potty but she never went and then all of a sudden she had an accident. She was so confused and kept trying to back away from the wetness. It was pretty funny because she was oblivious to the fact that she was peeing and causing the wetness. Oh well. That was Friday.
Saturday Tacy and I camped out in the kitchen ALL day. She wore underwear (I showed her her Frozen underwear in hopes that she would be motivated to stay dry to keep wearing Anna and Elsa). Brad ran all our grocery errands alone while Tacy and I played in the kitchen, kept sitting on the potty, and I kept trying to get that girl to drink water. Well she had 3.5 accidents which made for lots of cleaning up. While it was a lot, she started getting better at recognizing that she was going and running in the direction of the potty. We have a bathroom right next to the kitchen and I brought her little potty down into the kitchen as well. But she did manage to make it to the potty twice. It's amazing how happy I felt when she did. I was so excited and proud of her. She would also look at me and look so overjoyed. She would say "Momma I did it!" We would then sing a little Dora, high five, and hug. Then she got a treat and to put a sticker on her chart. For her nap and bedtime she wore a diaper. When she went to bed I was exhausted. It had been a long day in the kitchen. So I ran to Target to get more underwear and walked over to Cook Out to get a shake. The fresh air felt so nice (sad that we had such good weather for the weekend and I was inside the whole time).
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| reading Daddy's PA journal, just some light bathroom reading |
Sunday, Tacy got right into her underwear again. While I was showering/getting ready, she told Daddy that she needed to go potty and went! That made me so happy because she didn't forget everything we had done the day before! We let her go in the living room. She took her nap in her underwear. Everything was going great except she kept insisting she didn't need to go or would only sit on the potty for a second then wiggle off saying she couldn't go. So disappointing. I kept catching her holding her bum and trying to get her to sit on the potty but she insisted she did not need to go and would fight me. Needless to say she had 2 accidents. Brad kept looking at me and asking if I wanted to put her in a diaper, and as much as I wanted to give in and do it, I said no. That was my weekend. I felt like we would take one step forward and then 2 back. My mom told me that this is normal. But goodness, it is hard on me. I feel like I understand depression now, because I would be so happy and feel it was all worth it when she made it to the potty but would be so sad, down, and ready to give up when she wouldn't make it and would fight me.
I am glad it was conference weekend so that while potty training I was able to listen to some wonderful talks about family. I can't say I remember a lot of what I heard because Tacy takes up a lot of my attention, but I was grateful for the bit I did hear. I am grateful for youtube and that even though we don't have BYU tv we can still watch General Conference live on Youtube or through lds.org.
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| Tacy wanted to take a picture of General Conference |
We did have funny times during the weekend. Tacy did have a little easter egg hunt inside Sunday morning. She was adorable and would put her hands on the side of her face to help her look better when we told her that we still saw eggs. She got some candy from the dollar store, change (she loves money and put all the change in her piggy bank to "save for later") and some Ariel underwear. The true meaning of Easter was a little hard for her to understand since she does not understand death. We did watch Because He Lives video on Monday for FHE. She loves Jesus but was sad when she saw Him getting hurt and hung on the cross. My sweet and tender girl.
I love when people say that diapers make it easier for the kids. That might be true, but I think diapers are easier for parents. It is so much easier to not have to worry about accidents, to be able to run errands without worrying about potties and what to do if she has an accident. This morning I had to pack extra underwear and clothes for her to take to my friend's house. I also put a towel in her car seat. I told my parents that potty training is great birth control. We will get through this....one way or another. My mom told me to "be patient and wait". Haha, not near as nice as "Have courage and be kind".
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| making jewelry! |
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