Staying Dry

Elizabeth has been day time potty trained for some time now, but she was still wearing pull-ups during naps and at night. Every morning she would wake up wet and often after nap time she would be wet too, so I assumed she was just sleeping so soundly that she wasn't waking up to go to the bathroom. One morning last week she told me she had stayed dry. I checked and said, "no, sweetie you pottied in your diaper." She said, "no mommy I just did that when I woke up." Ok, so now we are just laying in bed peeing because it is easier?! When we were on vacation her friend asked her one morning at breakfast, "Why do wear diapers?" I held my breath waiting for her answer and she replied, "I don't know." It was time to try underwear at night. I think I didn't want to deal with wet sheets in the middle of the night and all the crying that would go with it and the possibility of waking up the whole house, but I knew we had to try. If she was just peeing in a diaper because she was wearing a diaper than maybe underwear would be just fine. Wednesday night I prepared Brandon for my mission and told him I was prepared to deal with any situation that may occur. The main obstacle was that she wanted milk before she went to bed. We have been giving her her last drink at dinner time so the bladder would be good and empty before bed, but she really wanted milk. She associated wearing underwear with not getting milk and it took me a good 15 minutes to settle her down and tell her what a big girl she would be for wearing underwear and waking up dry. She woke me up at 12:30 am, soaking wet. I changed her sheets, put a pull-up on her and she went right back to sleep. The next morning she woke up exclaiming, "I stayed dry!" I guess she didn't remember the 12:30 accident, but her pull-up was dry. Thursday night we tried again. I still had to do some convincing for her to wear underwear, but she was exhausted and gave in a little easier and fell right asleep. At 7:15am this morning I went in and woke her up because I didn't want her make it this far and then have an accident this morning. She was dry! I begged her to go to the bathroom and go potty and she told me she didn't need to. She didn't go until after breakfast and a cup of juice. I think that means my three-year old daughter's bladder is stronger than mine! Hooray for Elizabeth! We will hope she does just as good tonight! Could it be that we will only have one child in diapers? Grant, do you want to try to sit on the potty?! Just joking, I think we better get him walking first!