When Sasha is not in daycare and we are staying mostly at home, we forgo the diaper and let her wear her big girl panties with another extra layer of thin vinyl panties. Potty training is one thing, pee smelling silk carpets is a whole nother. Apparently, she is supposed to dislike the feeling of wetness, complain, and we can then get her to the potty. We have also started sitting her on her potty in the mornings (as per J's advice), to get her used to going. Unfortunately, we had not taken into account the possibility that she does not mind being wet. We realise now how her ability to wallow in her own piss/poo filled diapers for a whole day may have worked to our advantage when we were using expensive diapers, but not so much during potty training. So her new nickname is Pissy Galore. We will persevere, and while our diaper bills may be somewhat reduced, I am pretty sure our electricity bills will rise drastically in view having to use the washing machine and dryer more than a couple of times on weekends. We have to go through another few weeks of this before we start her at daycare. Hopefully J will get better results.
This morning, to give D alone time to get some work done, I took Sash to the splash pad. Although on weekends they do not fill up the pad to make it into a splash pool (no lifeguards to chlorinate the water unlike on weekdays), I must say she really loves it there and just kept running back and forth for 2 hours. I think I prefer the pad without the water filled as it is much easier to keep an eye on her.
She took a 3 hour nap after..and so did I. This will be our new home away from home.
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