Potty (yes, I said it. Potty. Feel free to skip this one if the title doesn't peak your interest)

So. Addison is thisclose to being FULLY potty trained. Here's how it happened:

One of the requirements for Princess Camp was that all dancers needed to be potty trained. Knowing full well that Addison was more than capable of not wetting her panties, I sent her to camp in panties. Sure enough, she came home with them dry. She never went potty at camp, but the key is that she didn't have any accidents. On the first day after camp, as soon as we got home, I sat her on the potty and she went pee pee! Success! We'd been holding onto this little My Little Pony Car, waiting for a good time to give it to her, and figured this would be as good a time as any. So, we rewarded her GREATLY, and later that day, she not only peed again, but pooped too!

So. The next day, she went to camp in panties, kept them dry, but was not at all interested in sitting on the potty afterward. Insisted on a diaper.

Yesterday was the first day I felt I had the energy to "fight the fight" and really work on potty training her. So Addy and I made a potty chart together. We agreed that if she peed on the potty she'd get one sticker, and for poo poo, she'd get THREE.

This is Addy's contribution to the chart: (she said "This says Addison's potty chart") :)

Here she is hanging up the chart.

And here she is after her putting her first sticker on- PEE PEE!

And here's the chart today. We stopped putting them in the right row for the day, she just placed them where she felt like it. And the big ones aren't any more significant than the small ones. And eventually, poo and pee both earned one sticker. She was pooping a lot, and we were going through stickers pretty quickly ;)

The idea in the beginning was that after 5 stickers, she'd get a treat. We've had to stop that, though... for obvious reasons. We can't afford that at the rate she's going!

She's only had one accident- a little bit of poo poo, because we were WAY in the back of Target, and she couldn't make it in time. Other than that, we've been accident free for two days now!

She'll kill me when she's older for putting this up, but oh well...

Yay Addison! Yay yay yay!!! FINALLY!