Potty Training

Esme's been conscious of the potty since she was almost 18 months old.  For quite some time now she's been going at school with the other kids and at home only before bed.  We've been waiting for her to be ready but never really pushed the issue.  We also didn't want to make too many changes right before Chan was born so we've held off until now.  Allen was working this weekend but I decided to go ahead with potty training anyways since it's not like I was going anywhere else with the two munchkins.  Esme woke up on Saturday and was very excited about going to the potty cause I got her new panties to wear during the day.  And everytime she went she got a sticker on her potty and a mini gummy frog as a reward.  And this system worked great!  By the end of the day she went in the potty 11 times with only one accident.  On Sunday we started out a little rough with 2 accidents initially but then she got into the swing of things again.  She even switched it up with using her stand alone potty, the big potty and her travel potty.  And after awhile she stopped requesting her treat after pottying so that worked great.  I was wondering how I was going to break that habit if I had to.  

Chan's been very patient during this whole process cause so many times while I was nursing him this weekend she'd frantically tell me "I've gotta go pee" and start running to the potty while telling me to "come on, come on!"  She's excited to go to school tomorrow in her panties and I'm sure she'll do fine there too.  Now the pooping on the potty is a whole other story but hopefully we can get that underway soon too.

Esme's 3 potty seats

Sitting outside eating her watermelon

I've got one more week of maternity leave before returning to work.  Amazingly I've been very productive in the past few weeks and getting a lot of projects done.  I've also just been enjoying my one-on-one time with little Chan.  He's quite the little guy!  We're still working on his daily routine and sleeping schedule and I'm hoping daycare will actually help with that too.  He's still so inconsistent but I'm thinking he just needs more time.  

Out to lunch with my little man