Dear Potty Training

We are taking you on! We decided the route we were going just wasn't clicking with Ava. We decided to wipe the slate clean, and start over with a slightly different approach. The potty chair is in the bathroom where, and we have gotten a different reward. Princess stickers. And she is not rewarded when she goes to the bathroom, we are starting off rewarding her when she sits on the potty and gives it a try. We sit on it every hour, and she gets a sticker each time she sits. We have bigger, cooler stickers for when she pees. We got a big poster board, and Randy thought of an idea to organize it. Four different colors, one for each of sitting on the potty, number 1, 2, and washing her hands. Washing her hands is a given, she loves washing her hands. She sat on the potty nine times today, which is far better than yesterday. Yay for Ava!!! We know she can do it, we just have to keep her interested!

New year

I hope everyone had a wonderful New Year celebration! My parents had a gathering at their new house, and Ava had a blast playing with Grandma and her Great Uncle Dave. I asked her if I could play with her and she said "no, Grandma play." Understandable. Randy and I have had time off work, and she must be full of mommy and daddy time. Grandmas are way cooler. But don't try and lock mommy in a room with the dogs. I was in my parents computer room, and Grandma went to lock the dogs in there with a baby gate. Ava got a little worried that Grandma was locking mommy up with the dogs, it was cute. The dogs had to be locked up in a different room.
Ava's new response to questions in general is "no..no...no." And if you say something is hot, she might get mad at you because it is "just warm." And IF you ask her if she is chilly..."no. i'm cold." and she WILL argue with you about temperatures.
We are currently working on potty training. We have to bribe her with MnMs. Yesterday she went twice. Today she said "I no peepee in my potty." We tried the underwear, so she can feel how uncomfortable it is when she has an accident. The new carpet wasn't appreciating that so much, so we switched to pullups. Those have vanishing pictures on them, which she is interested in. She is so proud of herself when she does use the potty, we have a ritual of applauding, "yaying," flushing it down the potty, and eating a few mini mnms. I hoped to have her potty trained before I went back to school, but I don't think that is going to happen. Ah well, it will happen. Like my mom said, she won't graduate highschool in diapers.