Potty Training - Round 1

It has been a good few months that Caroline has been using the potty.  And by using the potty I mean that she understands that she sits on it, somethings falls into it, and then she wipes and gets up.  She's been peeing before her bath for a while and it has been a fun game that she has been interested in.  She has also been telling us that she needs to go pee - even in the middle of Target.  All of that combined with the fact that summer was approaching and I thought there was no better time to potty train the girl.  So we loaded up on Dora underwear (thanks, Mimi and Grammie!), ripped off the diaper, and gave it a go.  She was doing pretty well to begin with.  I would ask her if she needed to go, we'd run into the bathroom, we'd see if Dora was clean and dry (sometimes she was, sometimes she wasn't), she'd pee, get super excited about being able to pull off the toilet paper and then in about 30 minutes we'd do it all over again!  Things were great for those first few days, but then it became a little bit harder to get her on the potty.  She didn't want to stop playing, she would disappear for a little while and come out with Dora carrying a load.  The next weekend we ended up going to Jacksonville and I asked her if she wanted to put on a diaper for the ride.  She said yes and hasn't put the underwear back on.  I ask her every couple of days just to see, but so far the diapers are doing her right.

This is something that I am totally ready do in her time.  She was totally into it, which is why I gave it a shot, but when it didn't work - I'm ok throwing the diaper back on and hanging the underwear up for a while.  She is not even 2 1/2 yet.  I also found out that in order to get a discount at her daycare she has to be 3 AND potty trained, so I have until March before we will reap any sort of financial reward, which means that there is absolutely no reason to push this if she isn't ready.  I'll just keep asking and when she is ready to do it, we'll do it all the way!