Tales of the PoTTy~*

{Warning: don’t read if you are eating or about to eat, this post is strictly about potty)



If you remember, I briefly mentioned about making an attempt to potty train my two year old awhile back…like several months ago. We were so excited and even bought her a singing potty when she turned two. Heck…nothing happened!


{Her fave potty book, yes we read it about hundred times}

The tales of potty training scared me and my husband. On top of that, our procrastination crept in, we kept pushing it further and further. You know if you are doing this, it means "dedication, patience,determination & commitment". You have to cancel ALL the plans as far as going out or running around doing errands. Forget about it. You exclusively and strictly stay around the potty pretty much ALL DAY.....no kidding!

Month after month spending roughly $80 per month to support Pampers company on two boxes of size 4 diaper and two big packs of wipes started to depress me financially. I forgot to keep track how much money we have spent on diapers ever since my daughter was born…too afraid to imagine. How many diapers go to the landfill…wow that must be great for environment.



This is when a hero came to a rescue. My husband finally took the plunge last week on his days off. Our little one is 2.5 now, ready or not we were going to take this seriously.


Daddy spent two full days around a potty. After one accident and some resistances, he succeeded as far as getting her to pee pee in the potty within a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On the second day, she had mastered and graduated the basic course. She went to the potty every time she needed to pee pee. Yessssssss!!!!



Potty training is tricky and every child is not ready at the same time. Some children learn faster or slower than another.

As long as you have your child in a diaper or a pull-up, he or she will NEVER learn. We made this mistake several times when trying to figure out how to train her. There is no way to know when she pees because these diapers absorb everything…they are sooo good…too good to use when potty trained. Plus she never told us when she needed to go.



One day I came up with an idea to just put a pair of panties on her. Bang! That was it. It is kind of risky because you have to clean up the mess after accidents but it is so worth it. She does not like the feeling of pee pee running down her legs at all. On top of that, my husband takes her to the potty every hour whether she wants it or not, she has to go and sit on a potty. Both combinations turn out to work wonderfully for us. She is not fully trained yet because she will no poo poo in the potty and we still have to work on that.

This Japanese potty training video is cute and way too funny. A must-watch for parents and non-parents. My girl LOOOOOVES it, she calls it "oooh-pa-pa" video. A good entainment for today :D Shall we do the potty dance?