Cliona and her potty

No pictures of our little lady on the potty - that would be just too cruel. But we've had a breakthrough. Cliona started using 'big girl' panties on Sat. She has been in pullups since the new year - we threw the diapers away and things were just plodding along. We'd put her on the potty a few times a day and every so often she'd earn herself a lollipop. When she started to earn lollipops at 6am and we decided to switch the reward to a Hersey's kiss. It was easy - she loves sweets and was delighted that she spotted them near the cash register, asked for them and I actually bought them. I think that's a first in itself! Anyway, on Sat morning I nonchalantly asked her if she's like to wear 'big girl' panties and to my surprise she said yes. And did really well all morning. In fact she even told us once that she had to pee which was wonderful. We went back to the pullups for nap time and the afternoon wasn't as successful but Sunday morning was great again. She asked a couple of times to go and did so well that when she wasn't keen to get back into panties after her nap, we didn't push it. I'm so glad our 'leave her until she's ready' strategy worked. I think both Stephen and I were getting a little anxious about when the penny would drop (literally!!) . Cliona still claims that pooping in the potty is 'yucky' - so we've still a ways to go.