Your family pictures turned out really cute! We need to do that! Jake has been trying to do the potty thing too. He still won't tell me if he needs to go but if I put him on the toilet he goes... so I guess we're making progress.:)
you should just change the name of your blog to "mara makes a poopy blog". i can't wait to read all about the next movement! (you know i'm just teasing right? and that i love you and her and all of you and i think it's totally cute)
livvy is getting there too, but mara is ahead of her age wise. congrats! almost out of diapers, yeah!!!! (well you are, i am just starting again:( )
March 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM
Today Mara has been doing OK, she had 3 accidents all within an hour, but had 1 pee and 1 poop on the potty!! I guess it is easier to poop on the potty since she gets more warning for it, and you have to push it out!! With pee, she hasn't developed the muscles to control when it comes out. So after the accidents, I put her back in a diaper. But when she needed to poop we took it off and she did it in the potty. So I am glad that going back and forth from diaper to underwear isn't really affecting her right now.
When we potty trained Xander at 3 1/2, he was old enough to really understand what was going on. We had to make a sticker chart with prizes on it and had a party at the end for him. Over all it took him a month to really get the peeing down, and he has only wet the bed 2 times in a year!!!!! I am most excited about that :-) He still has tough time with pooping (he has constipation problems) but we are working on it.
I am just surprised that Mara is even interested, but she see Xander and her cousin Conli use the potty and she is at that age where she wants to do what everyone else is doing. And something that I have learned is not to fight about the potty. Your child will do it when they want to and you can't make them any sooner. With Xander we had tried on and off for about 6 months before he really wanted to do it. So since Mara wants to, I'm going along with it :)
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Close this window Jump to comment formYour family pictures turned out really cute! We need to do that!
Jake has been trying to do the potty thing too. He still won't tell me if he needs to go but if I put him on the toilet he goes... so I guess we're making progress.:)
March 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM
you should just change the name of your blog to "mara makes a poopy blog". i can't wait to read all about the next movement! (you know i'm just teasing right? and that i love you and her and all of you and i think it's totally cute)
March 8, 2008 at 9:14 AM
2 words: stool softener!
March 10, 2008 at 8:45 AM
livvy is getting there too, but mara is ahead of her age wise. congrats! almost out of diapers, yeah!!!! (well you are, i am just starting again:( )
March 12, 2008 at 1:23 PM