Underestimating her abilities

It's been a long time, but we've had a lot of big changes.

Her little brother, baby A, is potty training and both kids are big fans of Peppa pig. So, baby A ended up with Peppa pig undies next to his Spider-Man ones. Big A decided that she wanted to wear Peppa pig. And that is when it hit me.

Why was I potty training her little brother and not trying with her? She was showing interest, she has been sitting every morning for at least a year and knows how to use the equipment. Second, she's in a very supportive preschool and is getting ready to move up to the pre-K room where the school no longer supports potty training. They are willing to move her up, but we are doing a disservice to her by not trying her out on it while she has the supports in place.

So, we brought it up with the preschool. I think they were surprised we were asking them to do this after all my discussion on how it might be later for her. It still might, but we should allow her to try. I'm not entirely sure if all my work to convince them we should wait had been too effective because I didn't get the impression the school was entirely happy with my change of heart.

We started her at home over the weekend and there were a lot of messes.

A lot.

But, she seems to get it. At least with a timer, but she's doing it on a schedule. A few times I caught her walking to the rest room, but not going in there on her own.

She's getting it!

For school, it dawned on me that a social story would help, so I tossed on together. The preschool told me that really helped. She would ready it and get to the picture of the little girl with blond hair like hers and try.

I'm proud of her no matter where this goes. She's getting it and I hope we have given her enough time with the right supports to keep getting this.