Well I’m at home today with a sick Natalie.  Blargh.  I got violently ill on Friday with what I thought was food poisoning, but then both Matt and Natalie fell ill yesterday.  I came to pick her up from school and she was just sitting on the floor holding her puppy with a fever and crying.  Poor girl.  Now I wonder if it was more of a stomach bug of some sort. Anyway, I’m happy to say that potty training is still going really well.  We’ve been sending her to school everyday in undies and there have been several days in which she’s come back wearing the same pair.  She…

**Warning–TMI post all about potty training.  If you don’t want to read about poop or pee, skip this post** I can’t believe I’m saying this considering the state of my mind when I wrote that last post on Friday, but…potty training may be turning around!  We decided to just go for it this weekend with potty training, and if it didn’t work, then back in diapers on Monday. We planned to just stay at home all day, watch Natalie like a hawk, and keep her in undies except for naptime and bedtime (sorry, too scared to go there right now).  I scanned over a PDF of the “3 day potty…

Over the last couple of months, Natalie has shown an increased interest in using the potty.  We’ve been pretty relaxed about it and just bringing her to the potty when she wants to go.  Sometimes, she’s just marched herself straight to the bathroom, taken off her pants and diapers and sits on the potty herself.  Before the Christmas break, she was going pretty frequently at school, in particularly following some of the older girls when they go to the potty.  Because of that, Natalie’s teacher suggested taking advantage of that and seeing if we could PT her after the holidays while Natalie is still socially motivated to go. Well, we…