We're making progress

So we decided to stop being such LAZY parents, and to really try to toilet train Maddie. The driving force behind this is that we found a preschool that we really liked and the director said they could possible take Maddie as early as the summer...as long as she is potty trained. Hell, if it was up to us, she'd be in diapers for life - you can't beat the convenience - but I guess it's time for us to get off our lazy asses and to help our poor little girl grow up.

So we decided to get moving this weekend.

Dora underwear - check!
Potty chair x 2 - check!
Box of rewards - check!

Recalcitrant, stubborn toddler - check.

And I'm happy to report, that once she realized she could get a Dora prize every time she sat on the potty, my girl had a mission, and she was determined for something to happen. Which it did - 4 pees, and 1 poop on the potty this weekend.

We'll just ignore the 4 times she peed on the floor (sorry about the carpet, Mom!).

We're making progress...preschool is in sight!

There probably has not been this much excitement in our house since Barack Obama was elected

So we've watched "Potty Power" WAY too many times, and Maddie has Dora underwear in every hue of the rainbow, and daycare has dutifully introduced the concept of potty training each day...but not much action has been happening on Ms. M's part. Part of this is probably because we have not tried very hard to push her to use the potty, but mostly, it's because she likes to keep me up at night worrying that she won't be able to enter preschool.

"Mommy, I have to go pee pee..."

"OK Maddie, let's go sit on the potty."

"NO! I don't want to sit on the potty" - a look of relief on her face, and I know she's gone in her diaper. "OK, let's go change my pull up."

Sigh (from me).

But every so often (see video), she'll tease us and actually poop or pee on the potty - just to show us who is really in charge.

It's too spicy

This morning with Maddie:

Maddie: "Mommy, I don't like Jamba Juice. It's too loud."
Me: "Ok, we don't have to go inside there."
Maddie: "It's TOO LOUD. I don't like loud.

Maddie: "Mommy? I don't like the letter E."
Me: "Why Maddie?"
Maddie: "It's scary. And I don't like the letter B either"
Me: "Uh, ok."

And then this afternoon...

David: "Are you going to make a poo poo on the potty?"
Maddie: "YEAH!"
David: "You know, you can make either a poo poo or pee pee on the potty."
Maddie: "No. I don't like pee pee."
David: "Why Maddie?"
Maddie: "It's too spicy."

Sometimes she really cracks me up.