Potty Party Day

As crazy as it sounds I threw a Beach themed Potty Party just for Ashley.  The idea came from a book called "Potty Train Your Child in One Day" After the months it took with Rachel, Mike and I were willing to give it a try.  The premise of the Potty Party is that when kids hear party they are excited and want to participate and know that something is going to be fun. This puts out anything negative thoughts. With the theme set, Mike took a day off of work to take Rachel out for the day so it would be just Ashley and I. I choose a beach theme and we decorated.

We used paint drop cloths as sand, which were amazing because they don't absorb liquid.  We had another one leading to the bathroom past a concession stand. The pool was part of the ocean with a beach front entrance of course and filled with blue balloons for water.

The first half of the morning they get a baby doll that they get to train to be a big girl and go potty. She named her doll "Aubrey" and Aubrey did everything with us. 

 Aubrey is supposed to have 7-8 wet accidents and 1-2 poopy accidents.  I used goobers as poo and when Ashley found it she was mortified I wish I had the camera for that face. To make it even better I had set the dirty diaper aside to take care of later, but Duchess beat me to it. She ate it! 

Ashley has been so excited to potty train that she didn't want to wait.  When Aubrey used the potty the first time Ashley wanted to sit too and didn't want her diaper back on.  So our potty party sped up and the doll slowly got left behind. The key to success according to the author of the book is get them to drink as much as possible because the more they drink the more chances you get to go to the bathroom. We drank smoothies, juice, soda, had jello, and popsicles. 

Our big girl used the potty.  To keep her on the potty for a longer time we had plenty of books; beach themed and potty themed.  The favorites were "Everyone Poops" and "The Princess and the Potty". We played guess which ocean animal I am, painted nails with glow in the dark nail polish, blew bubbles at each other and even raced to see who could go first. 

She needed some outside time and went out to ride her scooter and who could resist taking a couple shots of her outside in panties? Obviously, not I. This was towards the end of the day. And daddy was bringing home McNuggets at Ashley's request.

I made cupcakes aren't they cute?  Thank you Sis Morris for teaching the beehives to make these!

but first we had to sing "Happy Potty Day". Yeah I know sounds crazy but I'll give you the results at the end.

She got potty day presents from Rachel and Daddy. Big girl earrings and panties.

We finished the party by throwing away all the diapers! Ashley is a big girl now.

The results:

Potty Party Day- we went through 4 pairs of panties. 2 floor accidents, 2 just wet, stayed dry all night

Day 2- down to 2 panties 1 floor accident (while a friend was over) 1 just wet, stayed dry all night

Day 3- No accidents, stayed dry all night

Day 4- No accidents (went to church for an hour), stayed dry all night

Day 5- no accidents (ran errands, including library), wet the bed

Day 6- No accidents (spent morning at Grandma's, birthday party, frineds house after party), stayed dry all night

Overall:

Huge Success

I don't have to tell her to go, she knows she needs to go and goes by herself and hollers if she needs help.