Potty Training Disaster

Well people, our first real attempt at potty training has turned into a complete disaster with all kinds of crazy.  We've had calls to our nurse line, trip to Urgent Care in the middle of the night last night (yeah, that was fun), trips to Walgreens....and lots of hours of a uncomfortable kid. Did I ever mention that Ella one day held her pee for 18 hours.  EIGHTEEN HOURS people.  That is not good. Is she part robot?  I mean, who can control their bladder for that long?  Anyway....our attempt at the 3 Day Potty Training program is a big fat FAIL.  And, I don't think it's necessarily us that is the cause of the failure.  I kind of thing the program isn't going to work for us.  The concept is loving, patient approach with lots of praise and attempting to get the child to register that when they have to go they need to get to the bathroom.  We kept reminding Ella to keep her undies dry and let's get to the bathroom when you have to go.  Well, those reminders TOTALLY BACKFIRED.  18 hours of backfire.  Ella has been a miserable chic the past, well, since Saturday or maybe Sunday. That's a long time.  I feel terrible with a capital T that the reason for her miserable-ness was due to our quest for her to be potty trained.  I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a big deal if she's not potty trained yet.  We have her lined up for preschool in the fall, and she will have to potty trained to attend, but I think now, if she's not, fine, we'll wait until she's 4 to attend preschool.  I'd rather have my sweet Ella around vs. the nutso screaming child that has been living in our house for the past week.

After 2 suppositories today (and almost was going to have to get an enema) plus a juice and miralax cocktail, Ella finally pooped tonight.  Praise the Lord!  You'd think I may have learned a thing or two about poop.  Remember this and this?  Wow....I think I must have blacked those times out.  I do remember the screaming though, and those screams were similar to what Ella had been doing this week.

So, thanks for following along with us on this crazy potty training ride.  We're taking a break.  I put everything away tonight and I pray that Ella will just forget all about the past week and what we've been trying to instill in her brain.  Rewind.  Do over please.

But, at the beginning of this ordeal, I kept snapping pictures of Ella in her big girl undies b/c she looked so adorable and grown up!  Even though she's not potty trained and we'll be back at Sam's Club for diapers, these pictures are too cute not to share (even though they are sideways....no idea why).