We are so happy! We are finally free from diaper expenditures. That's me according to my accounting (lol). For Anne, it's her major breakthrough - from diapers to the toilet bowl, bypassing the potty chair.
For about 4 months now, Anne had not been using diaper throughout the day and even throughout the night. We are really amazed that at her age (2 yrs & 5 mos), she can control her bladder and doesn't wet the bed. But she only pees and poos on a diaper. So when she says, "Poo poo", we let her wear a diaper then she would immediately squat and do her thing. So many times we tried to potty train her. Yes, she would sit down on the potty chair, but she just wouldn't pee or poo. She can and will control it until, in the end, I will be the one to give up because I know it's going to be unhealthy for her. This happened several times that I get frustrated each time and I felt she knows it.
Yesterday morning before she woke up, I hid her remaining diapers. Previous days, we've been conditioning her that there will be no more diapers and that she had to do her thing on the potty chair or on the toilet bowl. She had seen how her jie jie (elder sister) does it on the toilet bowl, she did try it before but to no avail. So when she was asking for a diaper yesterday, I said "No more diapers." She went looking for them and finally accepted there were none. She sat on her potty chair but she couldn't do it. I let her squat on the toilet bowl, still she couldn't. When I bathe her, I carried her and held her for quite a time for her to pee but still she couldn't. It's already becoming unacceptable and I am already tempted to give in. Around 130pm that afternoon, she again said "Poo poo.." so I let her squat on the toilet bowl, we waited for sometime, and then she went. We were both ecstatic. Anne was saying "See!" She kept on saying "Yeh Hey! Pee chair" while clapping her hands. I couldn't wait to tell the good news to her papa and jie jie. They too didn't believe it until they saw it themselves.
That was yesterday. Today she poo pooed. And while looking at her poo poo being flushed away, she says "Bye bye poo".
