Yesterday I thought Eleanor was potty trained. Oh yes oh yes. She went the WHOLE day doing her business in the potty, including a dry car ride to the store, a pee in the toilet in the store, and a dry car ride home! It was unbelievable! It took NO coersion on my part, she just wanted to do it! She pulled her pants down by herself, peed in the potty, dumped it herself, flushed by herself, and washed her hands by herself! Joy of joys. We diapered her last night just in case, but she only did a tiny bit in the diaper and then peed a boatload in the potty this morning. But it went downhill from there. Too many fun things to do in the house and she lost focus. So, after FIVE "accidents" I decided it was time to give up until another day. But, OH yesterday was so great.
Okay... so that was last week, and I still haven't published this post. The latest development is that we have had several days of off and on potty success. Today is an off day, and I'm thinking of retiring the potty all together for a couple weeks so that we can regroup, as it were. Maybe Eleanor is too young? She's 27 months old... she is really aware of when she needs to go to the bathroom and it seems like the few times she has not made it to the potty are when she has been upset or fully engrossed in playing, or the toilet was too far away (as in at the playground where we were about a quarter of a mile away from the bathroom). I know she can do it, but I think we should take a break for a few days. Maybe a month. I don't know.
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