My Big Girl

Well I am potty training Nellie. It was something I have been planning on for months now but things got a little crazy in September and October. So last week, I realized that now was really the time to do it and you know what, I really didn't want to. Potty training is hard and so emotionally trying, especially when you are seven months pregnant and your hormones are out of control. But I knew I really had to do it now, it's not that I was dreading having two in diapers, I did that before for six months and it really isn't that big of a deal, but Nellie really was ready and I don't have a newborn to take care of at the current moment so I had to do it.


Day #1 was not good, I never was able to get her to actually go on the potty, she would sit there forever but she wouldn't go. That night I just wanted to give up and put her back in diapers the next day, but I knew she was perfectly capable of doing it she was just expressing her stubbornness and if I waited to do it until another time that stubbornness would still be there, maybe worse. Sooooo the next day we tried again. I got her to go in the morning and I thought "Hey maybe this will work," and then it was all downhill from there. By the end of the day, and after multiple breakdowns on my part I didn't think I could do it. Well thank heaven for my wonderful patient Kevin. He came home that night and pretty much took over for me. We discovered that taking away her Diego doll when she has an accident, or her blanket, and then her getting it back when she goes on her own really helped, also Nellie likes her privacy, so we have to leave the bathroom for her to go.


It has been five days since then and she has gotten progressively better. Thank Heaven! Yesterday she didn't have any accidents, and she even came into the bathroom in the morning when I was getting ready and got out her seat, put it on the potty and went poop all by herself! Plus we spent most of the day away from home, and she still didn't have an accident. I am sure that we will have plenty more accidents, but she is doing really well and I am so proud of her. She really loves it when I talk about all the people who are proud of her for going potty, She likes to name them all and of course her Grandmas are on the top of the list after Daddy and she has to mention Diego as well. Diego is very proud of her! That girl's obsession with Diego really cracks me up.

I had to throw in a cute picture of her in her big girl panties