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Another day, another crime scene

It's been a couple of weeks since we started this whole potty training business and we seem to have reached a steady state.

She has gone many days without any accidents all day. I have to say, when I pick her up from school at the end of the day and she's in the same shorts, I do a virtual fist-pump. YES. It absolutely amazes me that can happen. (That's a lot of bathroom breaks!)

Yet, accidents still happen. This usually seems to occur when Jolie is having far too much fun doing something and refuses to break (and also often when we are out somewhere). And, if we try to convince her that going to the bathroom NOW would be a JOLLY GOOD TIME, she still refuses and can get quite upset that we even are entertaining the idea.

Sometimes, knowing that she's due for a bathroom break (usually when we reach an hour and a half past the last time), we pull out all sorts of tactics to get her to go preemptively. The pee-pee candy visual tactic (Don't you want some of these little girl?) The peer pressure tactic (Mommy's going, come with me). Occasionally, the brute strength tactic (this tactic is only moderately successful).

Once, we were at her gymnastics class and we tried to drag her into the bathroom during the class itself, lest there be an incident on the trampoline.

She flat out refused and started to get testy about it.

So, we didn't force the issue and prayed that we didn't get escorted out of the gymnastics class.

About 2 minutes later, she spontaneously sprinted to the bathroom by herself and we ran in after her, thanking the heavens the whole way.

And the pee-pee candy is still a hit. The thought or mention of this can persuade her that it's time. Yet, sometimes after all the anticipation of receiving an M&M after she goes, she forgets by the time she has washed her hands.

(We don't remind her.)

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