Potty training. More fun and frustrating times. As M turned two years old, I started looking for the signs that she might be ready to potty train. She was interested (very interested) in following us to the bathroom, she was staying dry in her diaper for a few hours at a time, and she would go off into her own corner to go number two. All these signs pointed to M being ready, but I was so hesitant to start potty training, because if M had shown us anything up to this point, it was that she was stubborn and that she would do things her way. I kept putting it off. “Oh, I’ll wait until the weather is warmer, and I can just have M run around with her diaper off.” And, “Oh, let me wait until I have a long free weekend so that I can focus all my attention on potty training.”
Soon enough, I ran out of excuses. Summer was approaching, and I was pregnant with my second child, and I was determined to have M out of diapers before my second child arrived. And don’t they say that sometimes your first child regresses after you have another child? What if after the new baby came, M wanted to stay in diapers all the time?!
