Our girl is just shy of her third birthday. We've been potty training for just over three months now, at home and at daycare. Most of that time, she's been in pull ups. She was doing really well for awhile, especially with pooping in the potty, but for the last month, she's seemingly lost interest in the potty all together. I understand that playtime is the most important thing in the world to her right now. Interrupting that for any reason whatsoever is just crazy....but so is walking around in soiled underpants, at least in my opinion.
Hoping it may help, I've switched her to the kind of training pants we used as toddlers - the Gerber kind with the built in pad with a plastic cover over them. Today is day three and the accidents are multiplying. In fact, they've tripled today alone. I'm not mad. One of those accidents did happen on the already nasty love seat, but it's also our main seating in the living room. I sprayed it heavily with Lysol this evening to get rid of the smell. Shortly thereafter, I recalled Power dorm on LSU's campus several years ago (now where East Campus Apartments are). Apparently, they smelled like piss and Lysol all the time!
There are many reasons why it will be wonderful to have a potty trained kid. We can finally buy nicer seating for the living room. I won't have to carry a diaper bag anymore. She can go to Montessori school. Her dad and I will get a small pay raise because we won't have to buy diapers anymore (she still wears overnight diapers, not pullups).
What do you do when you really need to put your love seat out for the trash (its also been puked on, pooped on, had milk spilled on it) but dont want to ruin your upholstered living room chairs that are still in good shape, or the floor pillows, or even the rug? Cover everything in plastic like in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"? Sigh...
