First, thank you to Mary and all you nice ladies who read my previous journals and left your advice and sympathy. You are the best!

Now lemme just sum up today in one word - Ugh!

I had heard about potty training by putting the little one straight in underwear, but right now, the "big girl panties" are reserved for evenings and weekends when I'm not working. Unfortunately, one of the detriments to being a work-at-home mom is that there's just no way possible I can stop work and take time all day long to clean up Alyssa's messy accidents.

As it is, my work days drag on forever because I lose an hour and a half of production to Alyssa's daily swim lessons, and on Thursdays, I have to make up an additional hour when I sign out for Alyssa's speech therapy sessions. *Sigh!*

Anyway, I decided I would go ahead and try Alyssa out on panties tonight. I put her on the potty, where she played for a while, then declared herself "all done." I held up 3 Hello Kitty panties for her to choose (she chose the one with the heart) and put it on her. Two words - baggy butt! LOL! Oh well. It's not like I expected Alyssa, who fits 18 month size shorts perfectly, to properly fill out a 2T/3T size brief!

After we washed our hands and left the bathroom, I decided to start dinner. 5-10 minutes later, I heard Alyssa give a little whine followed by "Mama!" I looked toward her, and she had let the flood gates open! Not only was she slipping and sliding in a pool of pee, but she had travelled across the kitchen while she peed, creating a river of urine! So off we went to the bathroom, to clean up, sit on the potty, and try on a second pair of Hello Kitty underwear.

The next 30 minutes was spent:
- Mopping up Lake Urine and the River Pee from the kitchen floor
- Rushing with Alyssa to the potty because she indicated she had to pee
- Singing songs and telling Hello Kitty stories while Alyssa sat on the toilet and DIDN'T pee
- *Trying* to prep dinner (I swear, it took me over 40 minutes to make a simple pizza and put it in the oven!)

During one of our very long bathroom visits, in which Alyssa really didn't want to leave the potty, my mom called...again...and again...and again...and AGAIN! Since I didn't want to leave Alyssa alone on the potty, and I didn't want to force her OFF the toilet, I didn't answer the phone, which freaked my mom out a little bit.

Finally, after about 15-20 minutes in the bathroom, Alyssa again declared herself "all done." Again, we washed our hands, pulled up the panties, and made the attempt at dinner. I called my mom back, and was explaining why I didn't answer the phone, when Alyssa walked into the kitchen and said "Eh! Mama!" then pulled at the front of her panties.

"Do you have to go pee-pee?" I asked.

She shook her head "no," then led me to the living room, where she pointed to a wet spot on the carpet next to the toys she was playing with. So back to the bathroom to get cleaned up, sit on the potty, sing songs, tell stories, wash our hands, and put on the third pair of Hello Kitty underwear!

Again, I had a puddle of pee to clean up (the carpet puddle wasn't as easy to clean as the hardwood puddle!) and I STILL hadn't finished cooking dinner!

But tomorrow's another day, right?

Tags: potty, bathroom, toddler, potty train

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