here is the scenario for us lately:
jenny wants to sit on potty for about 2 hrs a day. nothing to show for it--- absolutely nothing in the potty since january. but what are you gonna do when your kid is telling you she's got to go, asking to sit on potty, willing to sit if you ask, and not fussing one bit? well this momma is gonna let her sit on it all the live long day.
so we are busy on all these fruitless trips to the potty for months now, and i don't know about jenny, but i was needing a little something to keep me going. a little motivation. if there was just a tiny tinkle or nugget deposited there, that is all i would need to keep pressing on thru the potty preliminaries.......
well tonight we got a pee in the potty! i'm telling you it was thrilling. jenny was sitting on potty watching elmo. she had been there like 45 minutes. she finally looked down in it and said "some". i went over to examine the potty like always........ and lo and behold there was real pee in it!!!
so then there was the fun of flushing, saying bye to the pee, then a sticker for her chart, then a sticker for her shirt, then a big hunk of chocolate for her reward. i was glad to see that she didn't panic and have a meltdown when she saw her pee this time (like she did in january).
now to poo in potty.
her fave time to poo is in her crib alone. she is forever calling me back into her room instead of falling asleep and saying "poo poo" and after diaper change THEN she will go right to sleep. but lately she will say "poo poo" and i go in there and there is none yet. so then it is up out of crib and onto potty for who knows how long.
so tonight after our pee hoopla, it is bedtime at 10 and she has called to me from the crib 4 times telling me "poo poo" or "potty". (and believe you me, she needs to go) we sat once in the bathroom, once in front of TV and the last 2 times i went in there, i just did the old "time for bed ---lay down" routine. i can not bear to do another potty sit tonight i mean for crying out loud its 11:00.
i mean should i really keep up the potty sits she is requesting into the wee hours tonight hoping it will finally arrive? should i just let her sit there until she conks out and falls off? i'm not going to come out and tell her to poop in her diaper. that contradicts all this big girl stuff that i feed her all day. and how do i know its not just a conspiracy to get out of the crib??
have MERCY
ahhhhhhhh.......she sleeps.......
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Pop Pop says Jenny needs to bring her potty to his garage!
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