Potty Trained

Melanie is officially potty trained. I now only have one kid in diapers, YIPEE!!! We have kind of tried things off and on for a little bit, but to be completely honest I just wasn't ready for it. A couple of Sundays ago we ran out of pull ups. Of course we couldn't go buy more because it was Sunday. So we found this really old night time pull up we used with Kaitlyn and gave her the option to either put it on or to put "soft underwear on." She went back and forth a few times and finally decided the soft underwear. We went on to tell her that she had to keep it dry. For the most part she did.

Then Monday came and she went mess in her underwear 3 times. I was just about ready to go and buy some pull ups, but didn't give into the temptation and decided there was no turning back now. So for FHE we decided to head to Shopko. We let Melanie pick out any toy that she wanted, we kind of influenced her by giving suggestions that were in a good price range. She had about 6 toys in the cart and we told her to choose one. She chose this polly pocket car that came with a girl, a boy, a monkey and a cat. Like we need any more polly pockets around our house. Oh well. I knew that she needed instant gratification as well. So I grabbed one of the ten pack play doughs and about 4 bags of the individual m&m's (which are her favorite not to mention they were pink because of Valentines day). So the next day we were up and going.

The system went as follows:
Every time she went wet she got a pack of m&m's, every time she went mess she got to pick one of the playdoughs. When the playdoughs were gone she got to get her polly pocket.

So this afternoon she earned the last playdough and polly pocket.

Side note: While we were at Shopko we had a very sad 5 year old sister. So we decided to let her choose a much smaller packet of polly pockets. If she agreed to be my eyes when I wasn't around and told me when Melanie would hide in the corner to go mess or say she needs to go wet to get me. Let me tell you she was the best eyes ever. So she also got to get her polly pocket today too.

So you see it all is perfect because I was about at my wits end today trying to find the girls something to do because it was snowing here yet again. They have had them for almost 45 min now and I haven't heard a peep from either of them Yeah for everything!!!!! Now lets just hope that she keeps it up and doesn't have any set backs. For all of you out there trying to potty train, I say wait. Melanie was trained faster and easier than Kaitlyn. I think because she was older than when we tried to train Kailtyn, she was more ready.