Potty training

We've finally made serious progress on the potty training front. Ben has been wearing underwear during the day -- full time -- for almost two weeks now, without any accidents. And the first thing he does every morning is run to his closet to get clothes and underwear.

Maddie is a bit more reluctant. She was insisting on diapers all the time until last week when I gave her an extra incentive. I gave Ben a wrapped present -- a book about trucks that he had been wanting -- and told him it was because he had gone a whole week wearing underwear without accidents. He was thrilled, of course.

Maddie started crying and ran upstairs and came back down with a pair of underwear, insisting that I put it on her. She thought that by simply putting on underwear, she would get a present, too.

It took awhile, but eventually I got her to understand that she needed to go a week wearing underwear and then she'd get a present, too. So the next day, she was quick to get some underwear and she did a pretty good job all week. A couple accidents, but mostly dry.

So yesterday they both got a small present and they were super excited.

The hard part is nap time. We want them to be in a diaper or Pullup for nap and that kind of derails the whole underwear thing. Most days we have a bit of a battle to get them back into underwear after nap. Ugh.