Advanced Potty Training

Grace has been potty trained for about six months now, we have no immediate travel plans, nothing big is going on, and thus we have decided this is the time to work on eliminating pull ups at night time. We started last Saturday night and so far things are going pretty well. I've only had to wash her sheets once, and she's had two accidents after she woke up on the way to the potty. We've been talking about how we go potty first thing when we wake up for awhile and she's got that pretty much down. We also installed a nightlight in the bathroom and took the baby proofed door knob cover off her bedroom door so she could use the potty at night. That was a little scary since we installed the door knob cover because she wasn't staying in her room let alone her bed last fall. The first night she got up to go potty three times right after going to bed because she thought it was totally cool. Since then she's been getting up at 6:50am and going potty before coming into our room. Except last night when I woke up at 3:45am to find her in bed between us and I have no clue when she crawled in. I promptly escorted her back to her own bed after a re-dosing of cough medicine and singing Frosty the Snowman. That worked until just before 6:30am when I woke to hear her playing her tap a tune piano and discovered she had turned the light on and dumped all of her necklaces in the crib with Ethan. Obviously that was a problem. She wound up in bed with us for a half hour before I gave up and got up with the kids. Needless to say I'm tired this morning and could really use a full night's rest!

Here's a picture of Grace practicing sitting on the potty last February. At the time I had to bribe her to sit on the potty with playing dvds on the laptop. What a difference a year has made!