Jinxing Myself

Once I type this I'm probably going to be jinxing myself but I figure I might as well put it out there. We'll see how this week goes but I think we are about 75% of the way potty trained. Last week I told Maddie when her pull-ups were gone that we weren't going to buy any more and that she was going to start wearing underwear.  We had a 3 day weekend coming up and so what better time to work on it.  Well Saturday started out ok. I have to say i chickened out letting her go to gymnastics in just the underwear but we put a pullup over the underwear and off we went.  She did great and actually came home dry so off came the pullup.

She stayed dry through nap-time and for the hour long car ride to her friend Norah's. She did ok for a little bit once we got there but then just got so distracted that she had an accident. Thankfully I had brought new clothes. Although then we had the struggle of not wanting to sit on the potty so I ended up putting her in a pull-up for the rest of the time at Norah's. I figured it wasn't worth the fight. Once we got home it was back into the underwear although there was a pullup over it for bedtime.

Maddie made it through the night dry! Then started our Sunday. Maddie did pretty good only having 2 accidents both times when I had left the room for a minute to go throw something away. But not a bad day all in all and she stayed dry through both nap time and at night.

Monday was our great day. Maddie stayed dry all day with no accidents including a car ride to Vienna and back plus another night of being dry.

Yesterday was the big test though. I brought Maddie to daycare in underwear. I was nervous to see how she did when I went to pick her up.  I got there and she was in the same outfit she'd been wearing so i figured that was a good sign. She did have two accidents - one where she pooped (not overly surprising) and one where she peed but all in all not bad.  I'll give it the week to see where we are then but I'm very pleased by her progress.

I have a feeling that I will occassionally be changing the sheets on her bed but for the most part I think we are much closer than we were. I think the biggest thing was telling her we were done with the pullups and moving her into underwear. Even if she has to wear pullups at school (she'll wear them there at nap time for a bit anyways) no more pullups at home - just underwear.

I'm hoping by my birthday that she is 90% (because she's little and accidents happen). But overall I'm pleased with the progress she's made. Only thing left is getting her to ask to go to the potty but that will come in time.