Tuesday, October 18, 2011

seriously?

Something like childbirth, I had forgotten how painstakingly time consuming potty training was.

Here is a guide to my potty training day in a nutshell:

Green = underwear changes
Blue = failed potty attempts
Red = successful potty visits

Note 1: All potty attempts were prompted by Mo, not me.
Note 2: I've added uber cute pictures of the girl to keep a smile on my face.

9:30 a.m. Convince Mo to put 1st pair of underwear on; sits on home toilet to no avail
9:45 a.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail
10:00 a.m. Leave house
10:07 a.m. Enter Big 5
10:09 a.m. Mo sits on Big 5 toilet to no avail
10:15 a.m. Arrive in Target parking lot
10:17 a.m. Mo sits on car toilet in Target parking lot to no avail
10:20 a.m. Enter Target
10:25 a.m. Mo sits on Target toilet to no avail
10:40 a.m. Arrive at Japanese market
10:45 a.m. Mo sits on Japanese market toilet and pees!

11:05 a.m. Arrive at school to drop Katie off; Mo sits on car toilet in school parking lot to no avail.
11:10 a.m. Mo sits on school toilet to no avail.
11:25 a.m. Arrive at home, Mo sits on home toilet and pees!
12:30 p.m. Mo wakes from short nap during my run, sits on home toilet and pees!
1:00 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
1:15 p.m. I get out of shower, ask Mo if she needs to go, she says "no" I walk out of the room, she screams, "I'm peeing!!!" First accident of the day.
1:20 p.m. Put 2nd pair of underwear on Mo.
1:45 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
2:00 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
2:15 p.m. Mo sits on car toilet in school parking lot to no avail.
2:35 p.m. Arrive at home, Mo has small accident in underwear, sits on toilet and finishes peeing.

2:40 p.m. Put on 3rd pair of underwear.
3:10 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
3:25 p.m. Arrive at gymnastics; walk 3 feet into the door and Mo pees in the hallway.
3:30 p.m. Put on 4th pair of underwear.
3:35 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet to no avail.
3:40 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet to no avail.
3:50 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet to no avail.
4:00 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet to no avail.
4:15 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet and pees!
4:30 p.m. Mo sits on gymnastics toilet to no avail; leave gymnastics
4:45 p.m. Arrive at home; Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
5:15 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
5:30 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
5:45 p.m. Mo sits on home toilet to no avail.
5:50 p.m. Papa arrives at home -- I immediately transfer potty training duties to him and stop keeping track of details. I believe he has two more successful pees in between a number of tries.

Note 3: I'm going to go ahead and categorize this post under "achievements."

2 comments:

jozen said...

awesome post!

and yes, i am glad that i don't have to go through potty training again!

jen@odbt said...

Great post and cute pics! Brings back memories or nightmares in my case. Potty training was not my favorite. I found what worked for my kids - giving them control and having them tell me when they needed to go instead of me telling them to try/go.