Day 1!

Well today was the first day of the first attempt of potty training (does that sound like I'm setting myself up for failure?).  It started off well...Tegan loved to sit on the potty with an old laptop set up watching some youtube episodes of Franklin. She peed in the potty twice which elicited much praise, high-fives and of course the coveted jelly-beans (2 for each pee). She also decided that pull-ups and training pants were ok to wear which is better than last week when she screamed if I came near her with either of them.

We had a busy afternoon with Tegan getting her first haircut, a visit from family and we took a trip to a new toy store to pick up some more age appropriate toys T. She was constantly changing from being naked, to training pants to pull-ups to a diaper. We had no more pees in the potty and two pees on the floor. I tried to get her sitting on the potty as much as possible but Tegan has decided if she is sitting on the potty she wants to be watching Franklin and the last thing I want on the first sunny day in weeks is for her to be sitting indoors all day watching cartoons.

By dinner time Tegan was melting down...not sure if it was the busy day, the potty-training or the rough nap wake up, but she was not in the mood to do anything and was throwing the ultimate tantrums (she even threw a Quesadilla at me!).  When I tried to get her to sit on the potty one last time before bed she put her foot down. She slapped the couch repeatedly indicating she wanted to sit on the couch and watch her show and drink her milk while cuddling with mom and no more potty! So that's exactly what we did. In fact I opened a cider and Tegan and I cheers'd repeatedly as we downed our drinks! Also I have taught Tegan to say "toot!" loudly whenever she she passes gas and I find it quite amusing.