potty training......

ok this begins my chronicles of potty training.......first let me pull out my soap box.......there are NO good sources of how to do this seemingly impossible feat.......there's all this crap about, "wait until they're ready" and "let them be the leader".......um, ok what???.......if casey had her way, she'd be in diapers until she's 22.......if she's never experienced the world without diapers, how will she know she's ready to not be in diapers??.......not to mention, we don't let our kids lead anything, so why would we let them lead us into this crazy, dark, scary world of no diapers?.......

ok soap box away.......so our first potty training attempt was about a week before going on vacation back in may.......it actually went pretty well - casey was peeing and pooping in her froggy potty seat when we were home, but because i really had no idea what i was doing, we'd put diapers on for car trips (which i'm convinced confused an already confusing situation) and then when we went on vacation, it seemed crazy to keep up the training in florida.......so we put training on hold until i could collect my thoughts and energy and try again.......

last week i decided we were done with diapers.......it's monday and casey hasn't worn a diaper since thursday afternoon......granted we've had quite our share of accidents since thursday, but most of them have either been peeing in the carseat or pooping anywhere but the potty seat.......today we had our first poop in the potty and we made a crazy big deal about it.......hoping that'll end watching where we walk in our living room.......and although true we haven't been in the car today, she hasn't had any peeing accidents today either.......god let's hope this time sticks!......

i just can't get over how little help there is out there for this......don't know if it's because it's so different to train each kid that they can't compile a general help type book, but it's very frustrating to those of us that have NO IDEA how to do this!!......fingers crossed!......