Potty Training Update

It has been a full week since we potty trained Meredith. I would have to say she has done a great job and has come a long way in this last week. We finished off the potty training on Monday with NO accidents! 100% success including a poop.

I was nervous to take her to daycare on Tuesday but she did surprisingly well. She had 1 accident. Then on Wednesday she didn't do as well. She had 2.5 accidents but had a lot of successes too. On Thursday, she had couple accidents again. But on Friday she had no accidents!

Today we ventured out to the mall for our first outing since potty training (besides daycare). She did great! We must have been there for at least 4 hours and no accidents! They have a nice family bathroom down in the food court that has a little toddler toilet and she had two successful pees. We were in there 4 times though...two times she wasn't able to go and let me tell you, she sits and sits and sits and sits and sits. I have to force her off kicking and screaming. She really wants those M&M's.

This whole potty training thing has been a bit stressful on her I think. I've noticed that she is a lot more cranky (for lack of a better word) and testy this past week. Or maybe she's finally entered into her terrible twos. I don't know but I would love my easy going little girl back. But I'm very proud of my potty trained prissy princess.

This picture is from Monday - I promised her a My Little Pony if she did a good job at daycare.

Potty Training

I've been feeling slightly pressured to potty train lately. All the kids Meredith's age at daycare are potty trained so I've been feeling like I need to as well. I have a feeling that if we didn't initiate, Meredith never would have so I decided to give it a try this weekend since it's a holiday weekend. I decided to try the 3-day method by Lora Jensen.

Here is a quick recap on how things are going now that we're about 1/2 way done.

Saturday:

Pee accident on the floor

Pee accident on the floor

Pee accident on the carpet

Success - pee in the potty chair

Then we had to break for about 2.5 hours to go to a birthday party. Not ideal, but we put a pull up on her. We had to change the pull up two times despite asking her to tell us if she had to go potty and making her sit on the potty at the party.

Success - pee in the potty chair

Mild success - a few drops in the potty chair

Mild success - a few drops in the potty chair

Bedtime - we put a pull up on her (despite that the method says put them in underwear at night) and she had an accident in her pull up before bed.

Saturday:

Success - pee on the potty

Success - pee on the potty

Success - pee on the potty

Mild success - a few drops in the potty

Success - pee on the potty

**Update**

Accident - a few drops on the booster seat

Accident - just couldn't make it in time - she tried though - we were inches away from the potty.

Success - poop in the potty!!!

As you can see, we are having a successful day so far! I'm so glad today is going good though - I am still nervous to bring her to daycare in underwear on Tuesday.

Here's a picture from the third successful pee-on-the-potty today!

Surgery

Meredith had her first surgery this past Friday. I am SO proud of her.

Greg and I made the decision to get tubes put in her ears since she has been battling constant infections and fluid filled ears for the past few months. She went through a period like this last year too. My poor girl's hearing test came back saying her hearing is at only 60-70%. I know what it's like to have a plugged ear all the time (I have a tube myself) and it's awful.

Surgery day was a long day. From the time we left home to the time we arrived back home, it was six hours. We had it done at Children's West and the staff was so good there. One of counselors said that she wins the award for cutest hair of the day :-) Meredith sat real still and let the nurses do whatever they needed to. We got to sit with her in our laps as they were giving her gas. She sat so still and just breathed it in. She didn't fuss once. After she fell asleep, we left the room so the doctor could work on her. They were going to check her adenoids too and remove them if they ended up being big because she has some breathing issues and nose issues.

The ear procedure took about 15 minutes but we could tell they opted to take the adenoids out because we didn't see the doctor until about 35-40 minutes later. He said they were "humongous".

The hardest part was in the recovery room. When we arrived one of the nurses was holding her. As soon as she saw me, she just clung her arms and legs around me so tight and just sat that way for at least a half hour. No crying or fussing though. She did so good!

By the time we arrived home, she was back to normal playing around and having a good time. Grandma and Auntie Jennifer stopped by with Elmo and Cookie Monster balloons which she LOVES!

She is turning into such a big girl - I just lover her so much! She's bossy. She's particular about things - obsessive compulsive sometimes. She is very tidy. She says really long sentences now. She jokes around. She picks up our bad language habits. Lately she says "Jesus Mama" or "Jesus Daddy" along with some speed talking that I can't understand sometimes when she gets frustrated. It's hard not to laugh becuase it's kind of cute but yet you don't want her to make it a habit of saying that.

As you can see in this picture, she was eager to get back into the swing of things!

Tickle Hands Elmo

I got Greg a pocket video recorder for Christmas. Here is the first video we have taken with it. It's not terribly exciting but it's Meredith trying to do the Tickle Hands Elmo dance.