Look who's a big girl!

Bethany is!  Last weekend we tried the 3 day potty training method after cousin Charlie did so well with it a few weeks ago.  I had my doubts mainly because Bethany was "too busy" to go potty" and that "she'd do it later" or "tomorrow".  The book said that 22 months is a perfect age to potty train and since we were about ready to have April at that time we didn't get that done. 

Basically the plan was to throw all her diapers away (or in our case save them for April, but Bethany doesn't know that), give her the control to tell us when she needed to go, and stick it out the whole 3 days with a positive attitude.  Day 1 she thought it was funny to throw away her diapers but an hour later asked for them back.  It was an ok day with a couple of accidents.  Day 2 was worse, she was trying to dig her feet in and see if this was for real.  At one point we were both almost in tears and Bethany said, "mommy do you need a pacifier?"  I kind of did.  Monday I took the day off and as Day 3 it actually seemed to click that morning.  She wanted to keep her new underwear dry and started telling me when she needed to go.  The rest of the week also went surprisingly well and even with Koala Bear's and Grandma she only had 1 accident the entire week.  Even at night she was staying dry.  Now they say that some accidents will continue to happen once in awhile, but I'm impressed that it worked so well.  It is so nice to only have one kid in diapers now, yay for everyone!!

Bethany is so proud to be a big girl now and this coincided with her moving to the preschool room too.  She will ask us if we kept our underwear dry all day and once asked to see if we had Dora underwear too.  Alas, we did not, but it is so cute to hear her little mind work and be so excited that she can be just like Charlie wearing underwear!