Waiting with your breath held, right?...

I'm sure that all my bloggy friends have been holding their breath to receive an update on our potty situation. Well, guess what...?

SHE

COULD

CARE

LESS!

Surprised? I'm not.

This hasn't been nearly as successful as I might have hoped. In fact I would call it one big fat failure. What is a Mom to do about it? Drowned her sorrows in a Polar Pop? Don't tempt me!

I have decided that we might just have to give up our beloved spot at the preschool, we might have to accept that fact that we don't have a little Einstein on our hands, and I might have to admit that I am not the Super-Mom that you might have thought me to be. I had you fooled, right?

Instead we have been doing things like this...

Filling old water bottles with rocks, grass, ants, sticks...


Then have our brother practice his reading to his little sister while she just sits, and sits and sits some more...


Have a popsicle while sitting some more...


Build creative Lego creations and take all kinds of pictures of them (Mom's job)...



Making a royal wet mess in the back yard and loving it!...



If we go potty great, if not that's going to have to be OK, too. You see, I've decided that I do actually have a little Einstein on our hands because she is certainly smart enough to know that she can go potty. All the control is in the hands of one newly three year old. She IS pretty smart!

The pain has begun...

I can't believe I am sharing this for the whole world, or at least my bloggy friends, to see...I am not one who usually wants to share the potential defeats in her life.

Here is what I am staring down today...



Do you know what these are for??

That's right...

IT'S POTTY TIME!!

Cutie created a potty chart this morning, of course wearing the sacred Ohio State Trickerleader outfit. (That's what cutie calls it!)



I don't have a really great feeling that we are going to be super successful so a little prayer might be helpful. Miss Amanda's brother and sister are breathing down her neck (and mine) to get this pain over with. I think they are feeling hostage to the stickers and Smarties. We are on our second Capri Sun so there has to be some pee in there, right? I have to go myself just talking about all the liquid! Dearest Daddy has promised Culver's to his little one if she successfully pees 2 times on the potty. For the love of all things yummy, please do it, Amanda!!

I'm not due for a highlight on the locks for 2 weeks. After this experience I may need it done soon!

Wish us luck!! And don't judge me if this isn't successful!

Enough potty talk already...

Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!! It may have begun here. The dreaded potty time by youngest cherub. I have been trying to ignore it A LOT but I'm not sure I can anymore. I have found Amanda twice today naked from the waist down just walking around minding her own business. When I ask her what she is doing she says "potty" or "pee". What the heck?? I can not afford to have her accidentally peeing on my brand new, beautiful, soft carpet. No way. I have unearthed the potty chair and it now has a spot in the kitchen. We also switched to a pull up this afternoon in hopes that she will realize that taking it off means hang out on the potty. We already knew she had a fascination with taking her clothes off if you remember this post. This has taken that to a whole new level. One that I wasn't quite ready to take. Yes, I admit that I find it much easier to keep her in a diaper longer. Cameron and Molly were 2 very challenging potty trainers and I already had accepted that Amanda would be just as hard. It just can't be that easy. Nope, I don't believe you. After all, I am a bit experienced in this! Ha-ha. I truly don't think that the concept has completely clicked for small fry but she loves the idea of doing whatever her brother or sister do. I just may be the recipient of that enthusiasm!