I’ve been having Alethea sit on the potty chair every morning when she gets up and every afternoon before her nap for the past couple weeks, just trying to get her in a routine of sitting on the potty, without any real expectation that she’d actually use it.

So today I decided that I would try a little harder to get her onto the potty at times she actually had to go.  Here’s how our morning went, by the numbers:

Trips into the bathroom: 3

Total time Alethea voluntarily spent in the bathroom not wearing a diaper: 115 minutes

Number of M&Ms promised to Alethea for successfully peeing in the potty: 5

Number of times Alethea peed on the floor: 2

Number of times Alethea peed in the potty: 0

Number of frustrated Mommies: 1

So now my dilemma is how to handle the fact that even if I time our trips to the bathroom at moments when she needs to go, she holds it until she either a) gets back into a diaper, or b) is allowed to stand up.

Trying to look on the bright side, once we do get her potty trained, it doesn’t appear that she will have any trouble ‘holding it’ when we’re out and about.  Because she really will be potty trained someday, right?!?!?