tales from a far-land

We had our first home potty time success this morning.  Madilyn has been going potty on the toilet successfully all week at preschool.  All week she has been using the preschool's toilet about 3-4 times a day.  She even has gotten to the point of letting her teacher know on the playground when she needs to go potty.  However, when we try to use the toilet at home, we have not once been successful nor has she been that forthcoming.  It has been a little frustrating.  We will take her to the potty at home about every half an hour and, before this morning, it was inevitable she would pee her pants right *after* one of our trips to the toilet.  But this morning it was different.  When Madi awoke this morning, her diaper was completely dry.  Yes, we are still using diapers at night.  We were not quite ready to combat her night time bodily functions too.  Anyway, since she was completely dry, I knew that she would need to u...

What can I say?  Toddler potty training has arrived in our house.  Actually, it has not only arrived, but it is consuming our home.  Preschool started the potty training track for us about a couple of weeks ago when Madi officially moved into the Toddler 2 Room.  This classroom is unique.  It has an adjacent bathroom that has three tiny toddler toilets.  The kids are just rotated in and out of the restroom all day.  So, we have continued the diaper to Big Girl panties at home.  In fact, I took Madi shopping for her first Big Girl panties this weekend.  I walked her into to Target and she selected her own packages of panties.  She wanted "Kitty" (Hello Kitty) and "Micky" (actually, Minnie Mouse) underwear.  She was so excited that she carried both of the packages all around the store and didn't want to hand them to the cash register.  She kept exclaiming, "Min...