Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Too soon...

So potty training Kennedy has been on my mind quite a bit lately. OK every time i change her diaper. She just seems so big to me and old enough to figure out how to go to the bathroom by herself. i do have quite a bit of reservations like she can hardly talk how am i going to understand that she needs to go to the bathroom. so i have been teaching her the word potty. I bought her a little potty chair so when she sits on it i say "lets go potty" so she knows where i am talking about when i say potty. She cant pull up or down her pants. she isn't even 2 yet. I figure with practice she will get that down. I'm helping her now but she will get it. she couldn't take her shirt off over her head she figured that out she can do this.
So we got her her little chair i let her drink from her cup and then we sit on the chair. she is watching a movie. i read her books anything to pass the time from just sitting on the chair. poor girl has a red ring on her bum from sitting on the chair so long. ( she has been blessed with her parents flat bum.) Every time i let her up and we put her pants back on she would pee. poor girl i put pull ups on her and if she pees her pants it gets cold. well she peed while she was napping. needless to say she didn't wake up very happy.
Finally Finally she is sitting in her chair and i bring two cups out. one with water and one with out. i pour the water into one cup and then back into the other. i can see her kind of dancing in her chair. she doesn't know what to do. she doesn't have her diaper on. finally she relaxes and goes. she looks at me surprised like "What? Look what i did" We cheer. Yeah you went potty. I let her have a jolly rancher she loves. i hope that she learns to like this. I'm not going to totally push her. I'll take it slow. but i want her to see that going potty like a big girl isn't so bad.