Potty training.

Bless her, Poppy does not like sitting on the potty, or on the toilet!! Just as soon as Christmas finished Emma and Lee decided that the time for potty training had arrived. Not easy to potty train a child who does not like sitting on the potty though so they are trying a rewards programme everytime she sits on it. So far they have had a wee on the sofa, a wee on Daddy and a poo on the rug! They have also had a wee in the potty and a poo, so hopefully they are starting to get somewhere! Perserverance is the order of the day I think, though you do tend to get fed up of hearing yourself say "do you need a wee wee Poppy?" "do you need the potty Poppy?" !!! They even bought her a padded toilet seat, and her potty is the form of a little chair built like a teddy bear so every avenue is covered!
Nappies are so expensive it would be nice not to have to keep on buying them, not like in my day when I used towelling nappies which had to be washed and drying them on a wet day was a nightmare! Disposable nappies were available, though in their infancy 30 years ago, so they were not the best. They did tend to leak a lot so you ended up with clothes wetter than the nappy and I used them only for holidays when trying to wash and dry nappies would have been difficult. Problem was that because they leaked you had to be sure and change them more frequently so as to avoid that problem. Nowadays the disposable nappies are much better than they were.