Success!

I think we can consider the preschooler officially potty-trained. She has stayed dry while awake for several days in a row now, with only two accidents. She still has to be reminded to go, but she will use the toilet when placed on it.

I am so happy!

The other night we were out of pull-ups. The problem is that I switched her over to the Feel and Learn pull-ups, the ones with Dora on them. I was hoping it would make it more uncomfortable to be wet and she'd stop resisting being trained. No such luck. All that I accomplished was to get her jogged out of her insistence on only wearing Disney Princess pull-ups and get her insisting on only wearing Dora pull-ups.

Soooo, that night I went to the store to get another package of Dora pull-ups. They didn't have any. So I went to a second store. No Dora there, either. I headed to a third store. Finally! I headed home victorious, but unhappy.

I decided then and there that I'd had it. The next day she was going into the Dora underwear I'd been trying to coax her to wear and if she wound up in a psychologist's office at the age of 40 complaining about being prematurely forced to use the toilet, well, that was life. I'd just go ahead and pay for it.

She fought me determinedly the first day. I took her pull-ups off in the morning and refused to let her put another pair on, so she spent several hours in the air. But, we had no accidents, so I felt reasonably successful.

A week later she still needs pull-ups while she's sleeping, but she uses the toilet during the day and doesn't fight having her pull-ups taken off.

Whoo hoo! One down, one to go. Next time has got to be easier. I know what I'm doing now!