Potty Training~Feeding the Fishies

So after finding out that we are expecting I told Josh that there was no way that I was going to have 3 kids in diapers. I said the same thing when expecting Kaylee but I was more determined this time. So once Ashlyn finished her bag of pull-ups I told her that she had to wear panties. She has done really well with pottying in the toilet but bowel movements were another story.

Somedays I really wanted to just go back to the pull-ups but I knew it wouldn't help so I continued to clean up after her and make her help. Well as you can imagine having to clean up yucky panties while being pregnant is not the funnest thing in the world. So I decided one day to search on babycenter.com on the discussion boards to see what other parents were doing.

One lady said that the only way her to get her 3 year old to poop in the toilet was to tell her that she was feeding the fishies. At first I just laughed and thought that was so gross, but it was literally the only thing on the boards that I hadn't tried. So I told Ashlyn the same thing and ever since she has been going regularly in the toilet. What a relief! There are still days that she has an accident but overall she is doing really well at it. She gets so excited to feed those fishies that live at the bottom of the tank and tells me that they are all fed and she's a big girl for feeding them. She even had me document it, so here's a picture of her sending the fishies their food (don't worry it's just her flushing the toilet and pointing as it goes down).