Potty Training

At two years and one month, Alexia has officially started potty training herself. I find it quite amusing as I was dead set on avoiding potty training until she was closer to three years old. I hoped it would be less effort on my part by then. I like changing her at my convenience, and didn't want to ruin the carpets of our rented condo in the training process.

Alexia has taken the lead on potty training herself in the last couple of weeks. She refuses to wear a diaper and has now learned how to take off her own diaper after I've forcefully put one on her. So I've been letting her run around without one for most of the day. And when she has to go, she will say, "poopy", and then runs into the bathroom and uses a stepstool to get up onto the toilet and goes all by herself.

Our high fives and hootin' and hollerin' has been enough of a reward. Flushing the toilet also seems to be rewarding for Alexia as well. It has now been three days in a row where she has gone "poopy" in the toilet. Amazing.

I have to keep up with her progress, and find it humorous that she's waiting on me to get big-girl underwear and a portable potty.