An attempt at Potty Training...

Ok...I'm determined, I tell myself! It's definitely time...Maddie turned 2 in July...we can do this! For most of you who probably don't know...my lovely child, Madison, will NOT sit on the potty. Not even come close...she won't sit on it with clothes on much less without her "diapie". I have tried umpteen million times to get this child to sit on the potty...it just wouldn't happen...she'd scream, cry and kick until I stopped holding her down on it...abuse...some may say! :) That was with a "diapie" on, mind you! Ok so at work the other day, I'm sitting at my desk and wonder..."How will I EVER get Maddie to sit on the potty?", "Will she be 14 before using the stupid thing?" ... I devise a plan. Ever since Trick-or-Treating, she has become obsessed with candy. So my genius idea is to buy "special" candy and every time she sits on the potty..just sits on it, she gets to pick out a piece of candy. IF and I mean IF, she does something on it she gets two pieces of candy and gets to pick out a small toy or a sticker I haven't decided yet which to use. I pick her up from the sitter, Michelle's, house and start talking about it on the way home. I tell her she can have candy if she sits on the potty...she immediately yells..."YAA!" (My daughter may have never lived in Louisiana but definitely has it in her blood.) Now, in the recent past, if you asked Maddie if she wanted to go pee on the potty, she'd say "No, I wanna pee in my diapie!" If I ever managed to get her diaper off to sit on the potty, she'd tell me, "Mommy, get my diapie, I need to pee!" I'm beginning to think its just impossible...she doesn't even remotely get it! The candy idea...A SUCCESS! She's thrilled by it! I bought the special flushable wipes and all that jazz. She now wants to sit on the potty ALL the time! HOWEVER, we now live in the bathroom and she still doesn't do anything on it. She holds it until she gets her diaper back on! Atleast I know she can hold it, right? Well its only been three days since the "candy" idea. She's taken to it well, I must say. She takes her diaper off herself and sits on the potty. However she just continually wants to use a wipe and "wipe her butt"! We'll get there eventually I guess...maybe when she's 14!! I'm hopeful!

PS...Blake's vocabulary has just blown up these past couple weeks. He repeats everything! Much more than little Ms. Maddie. Ironically, after bringing her to a specialist to check her hearing cause she wasn't talking at 18 months...now, like her mother, she doesn't shut up!! We laughed about Blake probably never talking because the poor kid can't get a word in EVER! Now he says everything, except "Mama" of course. If you ask him to say "MAMA", he follows by a very boisterous "DADDY"! That's ok...I suppose! Now yesterday, Maddie was sitting on the potty, Blake bends over and gets right in her face and says "You Potty?" Too cute...