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Friday, September 19, 2008

Bribery...

This week I have been trying to get Alexa to use the potty.
She has an obsession with Princesses right now. She has Princess undies, potty seat, potty chart, potty stickers etc.. She also loves to dress up so on Monday we found a Princess Dress online. She REALLY wanted to go to the store right that second and get one to wear. I decided this might be my bargaining chip for using the potty. She does really well at first but gets bored easily and wants nothing to do with it the 2nd 1/2 of the day.
Anyhow, we printed off the picture of the Princess dress and taped it to the wall where she would see it all day long. I told her that if she was good about using the potty that we could go get the dress. She has been doing really well so this morning we picked up the dress. It hung on a door handle for her to see all day. I told her that if she didn't have any accidents by the time daddy got home that she could wear the dress. Sure enough.. No Accidents. As soon as Greg got home he helped her into her dress and there she was, Princess Alexa.
She made me put on the music from Enchanted (the slow song they dance to at the ball) and turn up the volume. She listened to it probably 25 times and danced and danced. She was SO cute saying, "Daddy, will you please dance with me". Greg ate it up. They slow danced, boogied and swung around. It was too fun for her.
Good Job using the potty Alexa!

4 comments:

Holly said...

She looks adorable in that princess dress and way to go on the potty! I'm still working with Jeffrey too...he's doing a lot better.

FRED said...

Alexa is learning to go potty just I am forgetting...Now what were we talking about?
Oh old age!

bettina said...

yeah alexa!! could this be the new halloween costume? now you've got to come up with something that cordinates for g! gus gus maybe? lol!

Am-Biance said...

Pretty Princess :) What a sweetie, way to go on the potty!! I will have to keep the "bribery" action in mind when potty training time comes along! :)