Summer highlight

I'm going to be completely honest with you. Potty training is not something I enjoy. It is frustrating, and time consuming, and smelly. But, I do prefer to not change or buy diapers. So it must be done. It took a lot of waiting until Kate was ready. But, finally she was. We did the whole not wearing a stitch of clothing on the bottom half for a while. It saves on laundry and it has helped my kids get the picture. Like, "where does it come out?" and "where does it need to go?" It just works this way, so I stuck with it.

Kate, being her usual self, is very particular about everything. She likes to do things the same way and establish a routine/pattern. While establishing a bathroom routine, she did a lot of interesting things.

One of them being, moving the potty chair to different places

Sometimes she would use the big toilet and uh...inspect it all

She had no problem going when someone else was in there. Usually her sister.

Sometimes she would even snack while in there...

Lets get a close up of that....

Is she wiping, while still holding the jerky? Maybe I don't want to know the answer to that one.

Anyhoos, it was a journey. Full of lots of up and downs and funny moments. But, we are all very happy that she reached this milestone.

There has not been a shortage of cheering around here, even if she does it herself...

She is now completely potty trained during the day. She started having a few accidents everyday. First, I told her she couldn't watch tv for the whole day if she wet her pants. That wasn't working. This week, I made her sit in time out for 2 minutes when she wet her pants. It worked like a charm and we've had no accidents since.

She still prefers to go with no pants or panties on at all and I typically have to help her put them back on. I'm just gonna blame that problem on her Uncle Parker :)

Since she is still in diapers/pull ups at night, every morning when the girls wake up (Kate always wakes up Liv) they go potty together and Liv helps her put panties on. It's very sweet. They love to go potty together, which must mean they are 100% girl :)

I am so grateful for how fast my kids learn and grow. Sometimes I wish they could just stay little longer, but I love that they are so smart and are learning so much. I am also grateful to be buying less diapers ;)