Potty Training: Progress and Regression

The stickers represent a successful run to the potty
and also a successful blow to my sanity. 

We've been potty training for two months now. Two months of stickers, praise, frustration, tears.

My daughter would throw me for a loop. She'd consistently go pee in her potty for days, then one day she'd act like she'd never seen the potty before. One time, she went poo in the potty three days in a row. Then the next time she needed to go poo, she held it in until it came out like a ramming rod - and just as hard. Then followed the phase of pooapocalypse - every time she needed to go poo it involved screaming, crying, loud coaching from us parents. Forget even using the potty, we just needed to get this thing out!

Even though progress has been so slow, I'm trying to be consistent and bring her to the potty (rain or shine) every couple of hours. It has been exhausting. I've learned to throw all expectations out the window. For example, I thought using public bathrooms would be really hard for my little one. On the contrary, she loves going to public bathrooms because she can explore a new space and peek under the wall at the person peeing next to her. She doesn't get creeped out by the high toilet or the dark cramped stalls. Then she goes pee like a pro. Why, then, oh why is it so hard to use the bathroom at home? It is confusing.

The thing I hate most is when I bring her to potty, she insists she has no pee pee, then five minutes later, she has a full wet diaper. I just have to remind myself she isn't trying to be spiteful.

So here we are, two months later, still working at it. But I have one gleaming hope to share:

The sign says: Zero Accidents 3/26/16

On March 26th, 2016 my daughter never wet her pants. Not once. From the crack of dawn, till the night when this was taken, she managed to funnel all her lovely liquids to the toilet! Now the next day it was not the case, but no matter, if she did it once, she can do it again!