Potty Training, one of my New Years Resolution!

My 2011 New Years resolution was to Potty Train Madison and hopefully do it as quickly as possible.  So I decided to try the 3 Day Potty training method, I had a few friends that swear by it.  So off we went with the 3 day event.  Well, it didn't work so well, although it did get her jump started.  Our first day was Jan. 1 and I bought more undies, a potty calendar, a valentine sweet-tarts.  The treats and calender work great and she is going pretty well.  The only problem is we are still having tons of accidents, so after banging my head against the wall and running out of ideas from friends, families, books, the internet, I caved and we went to pullups.  She is still going potty everyday...LOTS of times during the day, but still having accidents.  I think some kids are just harder to train then others.  She does know what to do, she is just either playing to hard or just gets sidetracked and goes in her pants instead of running to the bathroom when she actually needs to go. We are now a month in..and fingers crossed, lets hope by March 1st I can finally announce we are accident free.

Potty Training Part 1

Yesterday I decided I was going to bite the bullet and start to introduce Madison to potty training. We have already been talking about it for months and I have even put her on the big potty just to try it out when she needed to go number 2. She has gone a few times for me, but very reluctantly and it was more of being made to do it then wanting to.
We live in a two story house so from all the Potty Training books I have been reading at the library they insisted you needed more than one potty, so I went and bought the cheapest one at Target to cover both floors. I had Madison pick it out, and I even had her pick out another pack of girly undies since I know we will be having lots of little accidents. She was thrilled and even wanted to sit on it while we were at Target, so I let her...fully clothed of course! haha Well, since last night, she has ran to the bathroom, said, "Potty, Potty!" And insisted I take her diaper off. Today we did the same thing, I let her go with me each time I went and she sat as long as I sat. And it was until late this afternoon before dinner, she finally went "tee tee" for me, but unfortunately, she was standing up and not sitting down, but I cheered for her and told her next time we would do it in the potty, but I gave her lots of praise for running in there, taking her diaper off and trying at least. So I think she is starting to get the hang of it, and right now its so fun for her so I'm hoping I can keep my patience and not make a big deal about the accidents, and overly praise her when she finally gets it right. And for my sake I'm hoping this process goes faster than slower to keep my sanity!