One of the main reasons for starting this blog was to be able to track the kids progress over the years, since I have been terrible at writing it down in the baby books. The other day I grabbed Hannah's baby book down from the shelf, and realized I had not written in it since she was 2 weeks old!! Yikes. There were so many questions they asked, and I had already forgotten, but sure enough the blog pulled through for me! One of the questions is on potty training, when did they first wear panties, go on the potty, etc. So it got me looking back through the blog and I found This One back in September. So at 27 months she was wearing panties - big girl! Both of our kids got the pooping on the potty down before the peeing, which is so reversed I know, but hey, this mom is not complaining on that one!
As far as when she started to tell us she had to go, I'm not really sure when that started. I'm guessing around 30 months?? We went from asking her every 20 minutes if she had to go, and struggling to make her go, to not having to worry about it, which is so nice to have - especially with baby brother on the way. Sure, we've had a few times where she looks at me and says 'I HAVE TO GO POTTY!!' while grabbing her girl parts and then pee starts going down the leg. That is typically when she is very distracted, and deep in play time. And yes, I have put her on the potty a few times still in her clothes as she has peed right through them - but there was no time to pull the pants down! But that hasn't happened in the past 4 - 6 weeks. All part of the process, I guess.
The other thing with little girls - and this is mainly for my sister who is about to have a girl, but you have to teach them to close their legs when they pee - because if you don't, they push the pee out so hard when they are first learning that pee seriously sprays half way across the bathroom! That was a shock for both Andy and me and one of those 'AH - WHAT IS HAPPENING??!!' moments that we can now look back on an laugh at. I can remember being in the bathroom next to her, pee shooting out, not knowing what to do besides shield the pee with my hands, pee seriously everywhere.
The one thing that we weren't comfortable with was taking the pull ups away at night. Our mornings are already crazy enough, and having to deal with a wet bed and a kid covered in pee at 7am was not something we wanted to risk. So we bought a big ole bag of Princess ones, and over the past 6 months we have used them off and on, depending on how she was feeling, and if she had a lot to drink close to bed time. We even used some of them a few times over, since they have been dry in the mornings for as long as I can remember. So the plan was once we used up this last bag of pull ups we would not buy any more and see how it goes.
Well - that night came last week, the last pullup went on. We told Hannah after this one was used, she would wear big girl panties from now on. She didn't care either way since she had been wearing panties off and on anyway, so it was an easy transition. And we are happy to report that we have not had to deal with wet sheets yet, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise since her pull up hasn't been wet in 3 months (except for a night on vacay in Florida - the kids slept so hard there!!), but still, it was a little nerve wracking for the parents!! Especially last night after she drank 8 oz of choc milk around 7:30pm...
So for baby book stats, I'm going with:
Poop trained 26 months
Potty trained 27 months
No more pull ups at night 34 months
And one sweet, very independent, little 34 month old peanut (wearing 12 month size shorts and 18 month shirt):
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