So my daughter is officially using the potty. She pees and poos in it. She even uses the big toilet, child seat or not, and flushes. She doesn’t know how to wipe yet though, but her poos are the nice solid ones that don’t leave a mess, which is good because sometimes she goes poo and I don’t even know til I see it in the potty. Next step I guess is to train her to use pants instead of diapers. It’s probably diapers for the time being when travelling though.
My daughter is just learning. Many pees and poos already in the potty bank, but “accidents” do happen, a lot. I look forward to leaving the diaper show behind.
Congratulations!! You’ve graduated from diapers to “Mom, I gotta go potty NOW!” On to the joys of hearing, “I’m done!” and going in there to find that she’s “assumed the position.” 
On a more serious note, I’m glad for ya–I went through training three kids, and there were times I was sure that they’d gone brain-dead where the potty was concerned!
And if you’d like to forgo diapers altogether (even in town), you can use the thick training panties with plastic pants. You still get some extra protection, without losing the benefit of her actually feeling wet if she slips up. (Gallon-sized Ziplocs are great for toting extra changes of clothes in case of an accident, and they serve double duty for wet clothes storage.)
We’ve got the Small One peeing in the potty without fail, but she still craps only at night. We’re not really sure where to go from here aside from sitting her on the potty at bedtime and suggesting she go poop, which she seems completely uninterested in.
Congrats! I can almost hear the relief in your post. That strikes me as happening surprisingly fast–she must have really been ready.
In a few months, I look forward to Part IV: START WIPING YOUR OWN FUCKING ASS! (Nothing like answering plaintive calls from the bathroom and finding a 3 year old bent over, naked as a jaybird. “Can you check?”)
Stop using the diapers, get some girlie panties. You are almost to the finish line! WOOOHOO!
I’m so proud, we were in a store today and my daughter said “pee pee.” I looked up, and there was the sign for restrooms, we went in, went potty, washed our hands and went along our merry way. I damn near cried.
A trick a friend of mine used was to go to a nice place and buy her kid some really nice panties. Satin, with pretty lace, and everything. So fancy the little one squealed at how pretty they were and didn’t want to mess them up. Then say “now, if you get poop in these they’ll have to be thrown in the trash, so be very careful and wipe very good before you get up from going potty.” At the time we heard this advice our only non-trained kid was a boy, and the lacy satin panties weren’t something we were willing to try on him, so we never tried it. Still it sounded like it could work, and she said it worked well for her.
The possible gotcha I see is she’ll be so proud of her pretty panties that she’ll want to show them to everyone. That should be discouraged until she’s in college.
Enjoy,
Steven
Give her a book or something to kill time on the potty with. Hopefully she will have a surprise poop, get praised and a present (sticker, e.g.), and get excited about doing it more.
Ah, yes, the Surprise Poop. Sort of loses its glamour when you get older.
That made me chuckle.
Good on the little miss-was.
I’m pretty sure we’ll be having a “Stop Shitting Your Fucking Pants III” thread though.
It’ll just be me that’s starting it…
(sigh Day 30 and counting…)