Potty Training Tips

Potty Training Time!!

For most parents potty training is the most complicated part of parenting. You know you have to do it, but like me push if off till there no more time to push it to. Erilin is 2 1/2 years old and is finally potty trained. I wanted her potty trained when she was around 1. So I got her all the things she needed, the little potty, the panties, the waterproof lining for her crib. But, it just wasn't time. We end up just going back to diapers within the first day of starting. So since then we would try and then stop. 

Now that I am pregnant with her little sister, I didn't want to have buy diapers and cloth diapers at the same time. Just didn't want to deal with two kids in diapers. Also, what made it difficult was the fact i was a full time student and worked full time. So when i was home it was only time we could Try. Which caused alot of pushing potty training back. 

So finally it came to the last week of classes and I was free from having to go to school and since i am a stay at home mom once again. I decided it was the perfect time to try this potty training again. 

So first I made erilin a calender on photoshop. I wanted it to be something she was excited to put stickers on and at the end of the week she would get a prize if all her days were filled up. 

*This is what it looks like. 

Erilin went over board with the stickers, because we haven't even got to the bottom of the last row and there already stickers. lol. Anyways, we put it in the restroom behind the door so it wouldn't get wet from the shower. I also put it on a hard black board so it will stick to the wall better. Since I made it in photoshop I saved it into a PDF so i can print it out every month. 

Second, once we ran out of diapers,  that was it no more buying them. Even for the night time I just went straight to panties. 

No lie the first 3 days were the hardest part of it. 

The first reason is that she kept forgetting that she needed to tell me she had to potty and would just go on her self. Second reason is she was scared to poop in the potty. But once she finally pooped in the potty she realized it was lot easier to poop sitting down then standing up and trying to poop. And, after the 3 days of peeing on her self she got the hit that she needs to tell me she has to pee. After every time she remembered to tell me she needed to potty we will praise it and give her stickers. Just to show her she doing the right thing. 

Night Time......

The night time was the easiest part of all the potty training for us. Not every child going to be easy at night. Specially if you have a heavy wetter and also if your child pees during the night in their diaper. Erilin on the other hand didn't wet her self while she was asleep. Even though we give her milk to put her asleep she doesn't pee till she woke up in the morning. So once she wakes up I takes her straight to the potty. I don't even ask because i know she will need to  go within the first 5mins she awake. Also, at night she sometimes wakes up to ask for more milk. (Erilin can not live with out milk. Milk makes her extremely happy and gets really upset if we are out.) So when she wakes up i will put her on the potty again even if it its like 4 in the morning. We will be half asleep but I rather be safe then sorry. 

TIPS

1. Pick out the potty that best suits your family and child.

2. Let your child pick out their own undies (makes them feel like a big kid)

3. Make sure you and who ever lives in your household is in the loop with potty training. You wont always be home with your child so your husband, mom, who ever watching your child is understanding potty training is the mission at hand.

4. Figure out if your child is even ready to potty train. 

5. Making potty training your number 1 thing in your life. If you have so much things going on at once. You will end up pushing it back once again.

6. Praise your child. Every time they go and every time they tell you they need to go. 

7. NEVER NEVER NEVER!!! get mad at your child for not making it on time to the potty or them forgetting to tell you. Just makes the child more scared of the potty. ALWAYS TELL THEM "ITS OK IT JUST AN ACCIDENT " "JUST TELL MOMMY YOU NEED TO GO NEXT TIME"  "LETS GET YOU CLEANED UP AND TRY AGAIN"

8. Always stay positive. 

 

Potty training can be rough at first and they will have lot of accidents at first. Once they get it down that they need to tell you they have to go it will end up going lot smoother.

Now we are about 3 weeks in and instead of me asking Erilin every 15 to 20 mins if she needs to potty. She comes to me and tells me.

I always tell her "hurry hurry" OR "lets go lets go" while i am trying to get up with my pregnant belly, and she runs and putts her potty on the toilet all by herself now and waits for me to help her up. I always praise her that she made it and i give her a high five. I love to see her smile after every times she knows she did it. :) 

I hope this helped.

I will be having more post up soon on DIYs for baby Bryn's nursery, my baby shower and about cloth diapering soon. Look out for them.

Have a nice day,

xoxo Allie:) 

About Me

Introducing Myself:)

Well my name is Allie and I am 21 years old. I have a two year old name Erilin Isabelle. 

                          

Where I am in life?

I am finishing my last semester in college this coming January. I am very excited to check off one of my goals I set for my self. To show Erilin that no matter what holes life puts you in there is always a way to crawl back out and move forward.  

I am a young mom and I make mistakes all the time but with mistakes you must learn from it and try not to make it again hopefully. 

Having Erilin young could have destroyed my life completely, but I didn't want that. I try hard to give Erilin the love and support she deserves and nothing less. She is truly my light at the end of the road and it has opened my eyes to what true love really is.  

She loves to keep me on my toes and runs the whole family. She was born May 12, 2010. Time has gone by very fast and I can't believe how much she has grown these past two years.

A new addition..

I am happy to announce a new addition to my little family. She was very unexpected and wasn't anywhere planned. But, hey God doesn't give you any more then you can handle. It took me a while to face the fact that I will be bringing a new little person into this world soon. I didn't believe it at all. But, once I saw the that first sono and I saw the little heart beat and little bean looking person I felt my heart complete its self right then and there. 

My first trimester was totally different then how it was with Erilin. I felt sick all the time, anything I eat made me sick and made gas build up in my stomach. I would be in so much pain and the only things I could eat were celery and carrots. I still love them but OMG I was obsess with celery and ranch. Long story short I thought since it was a different pregnancy maybe it will be a boy?;)

Turn out no! Not a boy at all but another little girl. I didn't care much if the baby was a boy or girl just wanted to know its healthy and doing good in there. So with that said I am welcoming a new baby girl April 5, 2013. Her name is Bryn Kaelye. I am very excited to for Erilin to have a sister since I am the only girl with two older brothers. I didn't want her to feel lonely like I did.

With a new baby I have developed a new obsession CLOTH DIAPERS!!

I will be blogging my journey through cloth diapering also.  

What you will get out of this blog?..

• The life of a young mom.
• My journey with Erilin while pregnant and her achievements.
• My journey with two little girls under 4.
• DIY for moms, kiddos.
• Living on budget.
• My journey with Cloth diapers.
• Reviews of products for moms and kiddos.
• Anything I might go through and think that might help someone else out there reading my blog.

 

Feel free to leave me comments and messages on how to improve my blog and things you might what to know. 

xoxo,

Allie:)

Explaining to your toddler a new baby is soon to arrive.

NEW Baby.....How to explain to a toddler??

At first I would think how do I tell Erilin she will be a big sister without confusing her? Should I just flat out and tell her, but she might not understand that way. Or, should I break it down in small little ways. 

So..

The small little ways was the way I went. I waited till we found out what the sex of the baby was going to be before I broke it down to her. So I took her with me to the doctor visit and told her to look at the screen. So when the baby finally popped up on the screen her dad and I told her "look its your sister!"

Honestly it was just repeating it to her that she will be having a little sister soon. I told her the name Bryn and she was able to say it so that was a big plus. 

Now that I am showing I just ask her simple questions from time to time. 

Like: Where is your baby sister at?

Are you excited to be a big sister?

Are you going to help me change your sister diaper?

and feed her?

Are you going too show your little sister all your cool toys and movies?

Things like that get her used knowing someone else is about to enter her life. I know she might not all the way understand it but its a start, and with kids you have to start somewhere. 

Just include your new little bundle of joy in daily things you do with your toddler. Every kids going to be different then Erilin so just try something out and see if it works. Parenthood is a trial and error most of the time. I hope this helped a little.