I’ve been thinking a lot lately about when the best moment would be to potty train Alethea.  She recently started showing interest in it again and since that happens to coincide with these few weeks when my piano teaching load is at a minimum, we’re going for it!

Today was day one.  We’ve discovered that Alethea has a bladder of steel.  After breakfast (during which she drank half a sippy cup of milk), I offered her an entire cup of watered down apple juice, which she promptly guzzled.

Then we went to the bathroom were we talked about the garden, looked at flower pictures, played with the toilet paper holder and discussed the fact that if she went potty she would get to eat fruit snacks, use toilet paper, flush the toilet and watch Clifford the Big Red Dog. (Talk about incentives!)

Fast forward an hour!!!! later and that girl still had not gone even one little bit and was showing no signs of desperation.  We heard a knock at the door and put her pull-up on to go answer it.  (I’m sure you can all guess where this is going…)  Within a minute of going to the door, Alethea had wet her pull-up and in the course of the next ten, it was filled to the bursting point.

So, we are officially giving up on the concept that if we just get her to the potty when she needs to go that she’ll will, in fact, go.

New plan (Extreme Potty Training here we come)!

The living room rug is up.  Tomorrow we are going diaperless in the house.  She’s either going in the potty or on the floor.

She will choose the potty… right?!!??!