Today was an experiment

So I started the day trying out the pants with no underwear method. I also got ambitious and moved the potty back to the bathroom and cut-off the Franklin videos....too much?  The panty-less method was an epic fail. Tegan peed in 11 different pairs of pants by 11am!! More pees than in other days total! It was like she let every little dribble come out whenever she wanted! So I put her down for her nap and re-evaluated my plan.

I decided to try her in her potty-patty training pants for the afternoon. It was harder to get her into the bathroom to sit on the potty without the lure of watching Franklin. So I would give her a Smartie to get her in and on the pot. Once she was sitting down she was mostly fine. We sang songs, talked about our knees (Tegan loves knees) and she seemed to enjoy pulling her pants and underwear up and down. We did this every 25 minutes for 2 and half hours with no pees, none in the potty, none in her underwear (I think she peed herself out in the morning!). At 4:30 Tegan announced she had to pee, went into the bathroom, grabbed her potty and dragged it back out to the dining room. She sat on in for about 10 minutes and didnt go and by then we had to leave for dinner so she was in a pull-up the rest of the evening as we were out.

We got home from dinner and I asked T if she needed to use the potty before bed...she said "k!" and immediately started to drag her potty from the bathroom into the dining room again. I tried to stop her and tell her the potty stays in the bathroom but she started screaming. We gave up at that point and put her nighttime diaper on and had a cuddle before bed. I dont think it's the dining room so much she is insisting on but the Franklin...what have I started!! Something we have noticed during this potty-training week is how much extra sleep T is needing. Trying to learn a new skill is tiring! She has been sleeping 12+ hours a night with a 3 hour nap each day.