Diary of a Mad Pregnant Women Trying to Potty Train a Toddler - Day 1

Today was the official first day of potty training. I tried to get myself really pumped up for today. I have read a couple of books about potty training, and Lizette has been watching Elmo's Potty Time DVD for the past couple of months. I have TWO buckets outside the door one for peed on things and the other with water and detergent for pooped on things. We have to toliet set up and ready for when she needs to go. We also have plenty of Elmo underwear and Princess underwear.

Lizette went poop in the toilet about 2 months ago but hasn't done it since. Today we started off the day with sitting on the toilet for a couple of minutes with no success. After breakfast and a little bit of playing and peeing on the floor, she asked to watch Elmo. So I turned on the 30 minute Elmo Potty Time DVD and 15 minutes later she told me," Poop, toilet" so we ran to the toilet and SHE WENT POOP. In one of the books I read it says that you praise them when they sit on the toilet and nothing comes out and when something does come out you act REALLY REALLY EXCITED. So we called Tyler right away, and told him that Lizette went poop on the toilet.

Unfortunately about an hour and a half later, she got a mild case of the diarrhea she pooped in her panties. Then a couple of hours later I was letting her "Donald Duck it" or "Porky Pig it" (for those who don't know that phrase - when you are wearing only a shirt) and she pooped all over the floor, but she came and got me right away. Then after her nap, we sat on the toilet for about 10 minutes, and nothing happened, and an half an hour later she pooped in her underwear, and it got all over me. Poor kid getting diarrhea the day we started potty training.

I have been really good and I have not gotten frustrated yet, even for picking up poop 15 times - not joking. She hasn't peed in the toilet yet, but she tells me every time she gets wet. I WISH I had hardwood floors at the moment, but she loves to help me clean the floor after accidents, of course I only let her help me when I have already cleaned everything up. I am very hopeful that after today only good things can come. Luckily for Tyler he had to work until 9:30 tonight.