Brooke started potty training 4 weeks ago today. She is doing GREAT with peeing. She does have accidents, but usually it's when I don't take her in time because she doesn't always go on her own without being reminded yet.
The pooping, however, is not going so well. I really don't understand, either, because the first week or so she was pooping in the potty every time. She even went in the toilet at church that Wednesday night when we were there for small group and she was in the nursery. She was so proud of herself when she would poop in the potty and never seemed freaked out about it. And then all of a sudden...she stopped. Now she poops in her pants every. single. time. with the exception of when she pooped in the toilet 2 weeks ago when we were at Monster Mini Golf for Joe's cousins' birthday party. I don't know how to get her to stop. We've tried withholding her beloved Pediasure. Didn't work. I've tried bribing with M&M's. Didn't work. Then I discovered her love of lollipops and tried bribing her with them. Didn't work. I've pretty much decided that bribing is NOT going to work for this.
Friday night, Ryan and I ran down to the store for milk and Brooke stayed with Joe. While we were gone, Brooke pooped in her pants. Joe told her to wait a minute while he went up to get her clean underpants and when he came back down, she had taken her underwear off and had poop everywhere. So he took her up and put her in the bathtub and sprayed her with the shower head....and she did not like that. At all. I thought maybe that would deter her from pooping in her pants. But yesterday morning, she did it again (5 minutes before we *had to be out the door to take Ryan for pictures, so no time to spray her off). Then she didn't poop again until this afternoon, so I took her up to the tub and sprayed her off and she still didn't like it. But then she pooped again in her pants a couple hours later.
I have pretty much given up and I'm just hoping that someday (SOON) it will just click for her and she'll start pooping in the toilet. She KNOWS that's where it's supposed to go. In fact, the first time she pooped tonight, she took the liberty of going in the bathroom, taking her pull up off, and dumping the poop in the toilet herself :-X. I heard her at the toilet, so I went to investigate and found what she did. She is such a stinker...literally :-P.
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Despite potty problems, we had a great weekend. My parents came Friday night and stayed until late this afternoon. The kids didn't know they were coming and they were so excited to see them when they got here. Yesterday morning we took Ryan to JCPenney for picture retakes. Then we went shopping for a baby shower gift for Joe's sister-in-law Hillary's baby shower that was today. The kids weren't too thrilled about that, but as a treat we went to McDonald's for lunch. It is one that has a nice indoor play structure, so they had a lot of fun playing on that. Then we came home and hung out for the rest of the day. After the kids went to bed my mom and dad and I watched Paranormal Activity. Unfortunately Joe wasn't around all day. He worked in the morning and then went to Ohio to his aunt and uncle's house with his dad. They are getting their kitchen remodeled and were extremely nice and gave us their old cabinets, sink, stove, and dishwasher, so Joe and his dad went out to get that stuff (so we will eventually be getting basically a brand new kitchen, along with the new flooring we're going to put in). Today was the baby shower, but Hillary's water broke this morning, so she was in the hospital in labor (still is) instead of at the shower! I am praying for an easy labor and delivery for her and can't wait to hear that her and Joe's brother Dan's baby girl is here!
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