My Kingdom For A Poopy!

All in all, potty training has been going very well. Peeing in the potty is becoming a regular occurrence and the accidents are down to one or two a day. However, the accidents have all been poop related. She gets number one in the potty, no problem. I have now also visited almost every gas station and or restaurant between home and all of the stores we run errands to check out their facilities. Sometimes there are false alarms, which being only 8 days from the arrival of Cletus is not pleasant. (Josh has even graciously switched cars with me. Getting in and out of the Camry has been a little challenging recently. Well, maybe not challenging but definitely not pretty!)

Now, I am sure you are thinking very gross thoughts on Abigail using any public toilet while we are out. There are a few friends of ours that use a portable potty but since we weren't using anything but a regular toilet with an insert at home, we decided against a portable potty. Instead, we opted for this:

It is a toddler size cut out seat that folds into fourths. You place it on the regular toilet and a toddler size tushy won't fall in. So far, it has been a huge hit. Not to mention, Elmo is on it!

Peeing on the potty has been going well but pooping on the potty, not so much. I know that it is different muscles that are used to control the two functions but I personally think that while peeing can sneak up on you, pooping, not so much. The last week or so has been pretty much accident free for peeing but not for pooping. We go through at least one pair of panties a day for the poop storm. However, there is a positive note about this. Pooping in the pants is a lot less to clean up than peeing in the pants. With pooping there is usually only the panties to clean up. With peeing, there is the panties, shorts, car seat, restaurant chair and then the money to pay off the store manager for leaving a puddle in the middle of aisle 2.

Alas, we just continue on. What is really bugging us is that Abby verbalizes everything and states that poopy goes in the potty, not the panties. However, she just can't get control of it. We have tried different treats, incentives, bribery, shamans and smoke signals to try to entice her onto the potty when she poops. Not too much luck. I think about 5% of all the pooping she has done has made it into the potty. I guess we just have to look at the positive of this. She is getting the hang of potty training.