Leila is Potty Trained!

It is so great to have no kids in diapers!  Too bad it will only last two months until we have another baby in our house.  Leila has been ready for a while now, but we wanted to wait until we got back from Disneyland to do it.  We didn't want to have to worry about stopping 15 times on our long drive to and from California, and we didn't want to have to worry about her needing to go potty while we were in the middle of a long line at Disneyland.  Well, we got back from California at about 10:00pm on Wednesday, and started potty training in full force on Thursday morning!  I picked a bad day though because she woke up sick, and threw up twice that morning, so not only was I asking if she had to go potty every 30 minutes, and cleaning up any mistakes along the way, but I was asking if she needed to throw up, and cleaning up those mistakes also!  Talk about FUN!  Luckily, whatever bug she had was quickly gone, and after eating some lunch she was back to her normal fun self.  She made several mistakes that first day, but she pooped in the potty, and woke up dry the next morning, so I call it a success!  Day 2 was better with only about 2 mistakes, and another poop in the potty.  She woke up day 3 dry again!  She has only had one bad day since then, when I think she was trying to prove who was boss, but other than that she has completely gotten it!  She wakes up in the morning asking to go potty, and throughout the day she'll ask, "Mommy, can I please go potty?"  I decided to use a seat that just fits right on our own toilets so that I wouldn't have to clean out the bowl of the little potty - which we used with both boys, and was so gross - and it has been so much better!  She goes anywhere we are, whether it's the store, someone else's house, or church.  I am so proud of her!  She started with a chart, and when she filled it up with stickers she got to pick a fun toy.  She was pretty excited about all the stickers, and her "surprise", and I think that helped.  I am so happy to have no kids in diapers!!

Here she is in one of Nixon's pairs of underwear while hers are being cleaned

She thinks she's pretty hot stuff!

  This was the day that she was being rebellious.  She had peed in her underwear like 3 times that morning, so I told her that we were going to stay in the bathroom until she went potty in the toilet.  She cried and cried, and then finally gave in and fell asleep.