OH MY WORD.

That is an exclamation of sheer frustration. Potty training is proving to be a baffling experience for me this time around. The first few days she did great, basically no accidents. Then she started having times of going when she shouldn't, saying how she likes to pee in her undies, wants to pee in her undies, but doesn't want to wear diapers, etc. She was getting spotty in her efforts by the end of the week, and since we were traveling, I just put her in pull ups because I wasn't going to deal with cloth undie accidents who knows where.

Shockingly, yesterday, all through church at a new place, a wedding, a reception, and a 6 hour trip home, she kept them dry. There were no potty's any where near 1/2 the time, and the other 1/2 she didn't know where they were, but she still did it. It made me think, "Ok. I'll just keep plugging away with this. Then this morning, she has on her regular undies, we are back at home, seconds from 3 familiar bathrooms. And what does she do? Pees ALL over (by walking all over during it, I guess) my freshly cleaned carpets. Freshly, like they were just done Friday before we left, so we've lived on them only this morning. GRRR...

So I send her to the bathroom to wait for me while I put some towels on the floor, and she soon calls me in a jolly voice to tell me that now she's peed on the hard floor. OH MY WORD. I can't help but notice the joy that she is taking in these experiences as she is totally unaffected by wetting herself, and indeed continues to say how she likes to pee in her undies. I don't think I have the nerves (or hormones) for this right now. I put her back in a diaper...