Before I go into the story, you must understand Seporah literally sat on the potty at least once a day for 10 months before she even peed in it once. I had no idea how to make her understand that pee went in the potty. I showed her when I peed, I talked about the diapers, got the potty books, bribed with M&Ms, EVERYTHING! It was exhausting and I had no intention of starting potty training with Felicity until she hit her 3rd birthday.
For the past month or so Felicity has been dying to sit on the potty. I’ve placed her on the potty with all her clothes on a few times, I’m like whatever, if she really wants to sit there she can. I didn’t even think anything of it until Karen mentioned it. Tonight, when it was bath time and I’d got Felicity completely naked but hadn’t started on Seporah, I pulled out the potty and Felicity insisted on sitting on it.
The very first time Felicity sat on the potty naked, she peed in it and then she smiled triumphantly.
Let me repeat that, Felicity peed in the potty…she’s 15 months old by the way…and she did get colors (M&Ms) for it.
I was like holy cow, I didn’t expect that. They don’t even make pull-ups in Felicity’s size (12-18 month). Wow, think about it, I could be done with diapers in 6 months (my imagination went haywire with the thought of how much time I would save if I didn’t have to change diapers).
*Break*Just took a break from writing the post to tuck the girls in. I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but Felicity started folding her arms for prayers at 12 months. It’s totally adorable. And just as we were finished saying the ny-night prayer, we hear a very clear “Amen!” from Felicity while she threw her arms up the way Seporah does.
Sniff, sniff…She’s getting so big (22lbs and 30.5in BTW, 45th and 55th percentiles).
My little granddaughters are growing up so fast and grandpa is missing them…
Way to go Fecility; just keep following sister’s example and mom will survive okay 🙂
Love you all…
Wow! I hope the trend continues so that you can get a little break in one area of life . . . what sweethearts!
Put Felicity in underwear! She’s ready! Jill Henry’s little girl (Do you remember Jill?) was trained at 15 months, She was the same age as Lura and I was soooooo jealous!! She rarely had accidents. It can be done. Put that girl in underwear for a couple of days and see what happens. Whooo Hoooo!!!! You will love being done!! (Is that the understatement of the year or what?)