Big Girl Underwears!

I've been telling Harper for weeks that when Gramzie and Pop Pop left after Graham's birthday, she would no longer wear diapers, except for sleeping.  She seemed to go along with this idea just fine, even a bit excited, but you never know with Harper.  One minute she is on board, the next she is screaming and running for the hills.  So, on Sunday, after Gramzie and Pop Pop left, I reminded her that we were going to stop wearing diapers on Monday.  She said, "Ok, I want to wear big girl underwears!"

Monday morning came and Ian tried to get her to take her diaper off.  No go.  So, I explained to her that if she wore underwear, kept it dry and went in the potty, then she would get a jelly bean every time, and a sticker on her chart.  When she filled her chart, she got to go to the store to pick out a "littlest pet shop pet" of her very own.  "Ok, let's do it!" she said. 

Wthin an hour she had had two wet accidents.  Once, I started to get upset with her because I had just asked her and she had said "No way!" and then went into her room  and promptly wet the floor. But then her little lip popped out and she started to get upset.  I calmed down told her it was ok and that we woudl try again. And that was all it took. She stayed dry the rest of the day and by the end of the day, she had earned 5 jelly beans and was half way to her goal of a toy.

Tuesday started the same as Monday.  She wouldn't let Ian help her, but in the end, she only had one accident, and that was partly my fault for waiting too long outside to ask her.  She even pooped in the potty (I know, Too Much Information!). Of course, when she did this, she yelled, "Mom, there are rocks in the potty!  One big rock, and lots of little rocks."  By the end of the day, she only needed one more sticker to earn her "pet".  Fantastic!

Wednesday is here, she still won't let Ian help her in the mornings, but she has been accident free all day.  She earned her pet and we went to the store to pick it out (a gray puppy with a little parakeet friend). She started a new rewards chart, one with more spaces to fill and has already earned 4 stickers on it so far.  She is telling me when she has to go and even goes in and goes by herself before I even get a chance to get to the bathroom.  In the past three days, we have only used 3 diapers for her, and that is for sleeping.  And our wallets have sighed in relief!  We have made the move to only one kiddo in diapers full time, and it has been a very good thing!  (By the way, her "underwears" are Princess and the Frog and Tinkerbell and she thinks they are all "very bootiful".)