Potty training has been a very, very gradual process for us. We started putting her on the toilet to do her business when she was 6 months old, and from then would generally be willing to go in the toilet if A. we put her on there and B. she had to go. About a year ago, she started consistently telling us before she had to poop so that we could put her on, so it's been a while since we've needed to deal much with poopy diapers. When we moved to CA in late June, we started having her hang out naked (from the waist down, at least) and she almost immediately began peeing in the toilet, as long as she was naked. At first, this was through her yelling "PEE!! PEE!! I NEED TO PEE!" and one of us rushing to her to get her on the toilet. Then, a couple of months ago, she started going by herself. She still frequently says, "I need to pee" and one of us will say, "You know what to do" and she'll get on the toilet by herself (she's not tall enough to turn on the lights, though...). Though this was great, for a while she would still wet herself if she was wearing anything (underwear, diaper, whatever). But more recently, she's been consistently telling us she has to go regardless what she's wearing, so we've been able to have her clothed much of the time with no problems. Though she has a harder time removing all the clothing and thus needs more help. And she is not yet able to re-clothe herself, so she's actually still naked a lot... But still! I feel much more able to call her "potty trained" now.
I wanted to make a comment about how she's finally able to wear clothes in time for winter, but it's October and the weather yesterday was still in the upper 90's, so... I think she'll be fine being naked for a good while. It's nice to be able to dress her in normal clothes to run errands or go to church, though.
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