haley grace: BIG GIRL milestones - big girl bed & potty @ 26 mos old!

haley is getting to be such a BIG girl. she's wanting to do so many things by herself and really starting to have a mind of her own. following dr. baugh's advice from her 2 yr appt, we decided to convert haley's crib to the toddler bed setting. we chose the weekend G&G were in town in case the nights were rough....so the first night in her new bed was Nov 10. She's been in it for 2 weeks now, and overall has slept through more nights than not. the first week was a little rougher - with about a 50/50 rate of sleeping thru the night. so i followed aunt sara's advice and started unplugging haley's nightlight when i went to bed. and since then she's slept through 7 of the 8 nights. :-) so success.

given the long weekend with thanksgiving holidays, we also decided to give potty training a good solid effort. she has been sitting on the potty several times a day at daycare (albeit only to get M&Ms) and has shown interest. she talks about it a lot and seemed to show signs of readiness. so, we opened the potty watch and she was so excited about it. we set it for every 30 mins, and the times we were at home thursday & friday, she was bare-bottomed. she would sit on it when the watch went off, but that still did not inspire her to go. she just held it until naptime or until we left the house and HAD to put her pullups on. :-) smart girl. the third day she ALL OUT refused to even sit on the potty and to wear the potty watch. the fourth day, today, we kept her bare-bottomed all morning, and she drank a LOT of milk & juice. she was so squirmy and was asking for a diaper but we held firm and kept reinforcing that she could just sit on the potty if she needed to go. we even pushed back her naptime by 30-45 minutes because we KNEW she needed to go. finally she just went into the bathroom all by herself, and was messing around with her stickers. suddenly, she flung open the potty, sat down and VOILA, she went pee pee! she was so excited and we all celebrated with cheers and claps and high fives. and of couse, she got about 7 or 8 m&ms!! we called grandma & peepaw and they congratulated her and tried to call G&G, but had to leave a message. it was a big celebration. by that time it was 1 pm, so we had to wind down so she could take her nap as a BIG GIRL!

******UPDATE******
After haley's nap, she went THREE more times, all by herself, without me taking her to the pot! no #2, though, but what a successful day! she was SO proud and we were too!
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here are some pics in her converted bed and right after she went potty!