Good Bye Diapers...well kind of!

(Olivia showing off her new underpants!)

For the past few years (okay maybe not years, but months) we have been working with Liv on going potty on the potty chair. And I think she is finally ready to kick the diapers. She loves wearing big girl "underpants" and has gone from wearing them just in the mornings to all day. The only time I put a diaper on her now is at nighttime. She still wakes up wet every morning and I'm just not brave enough to try it without right now. Honestly, I think when wakes up in the morning she knows that she has a diaper on and can go in them, and she would probably do fine. But here are a couple of things that I have found out about potty training. 1) Your child needs to be ready, and forcing them is not going to help, and 2) You, as the parent have to be in the right mind set as well. Olivia may have been ready before hand, but I was not! It was just too easy to let her run in a diaper. I mean with three other kids in diapers, what's one more!

But now I think WE are ALL ready. I have found that a sticker chart with smiley faces and frowny faces work really well for motivation. And when it comes to her going poopy in the potty, well what's more motivating then chocolate! Every time she goes poopy in the potty she gets a small piece of chocolate. Sounds kind of gross, poop and chocolate, but it works. As soon as I started rewarding her with it she has only had a couple little accidents.

I'm sure she is going to hate me for posting this picture someday, but it was too funny not too. Here she is eating her jelly toast on the potty. And I promise she is just saying, "cheese", and not trying to earn some chocolate! Haha!