Oh potty training

Well if you read my blog often you know that Marin has been potty training and that back in April I wrote she was interested and that I would be within a few weeks she would be done with diapers well I guess she had some different ideas.  She continues to pee and poop in the potty if she is naked but as soon as you put underwear on her she will pee and/or poop in them.  The frustrating this is that I know she knows she just does not want to stop what she is doing to go to the potty.  Here are a few examples the other day she was wearing her Cinderella underwear and she told me she would not pee in them because she wanted to wear them and guess what not one accident all day and I praised and rewarded and at the end of the day we went out for ice cream because she kept herself dry all day and guess what on the drive over to the ice cream shop she peed in her pants.  I thought what in the world and she looked up and said sorry Mama I no mean to do it.  Okay all forgiven and whether right or wrong I gave her ice cream and praised her.  So the next day I put on her underwear and I say remember if you have on undies you have to pee and poop in the potty and you get a treat.  She says Otay Mama and off she goes.  Well later that morning she is watching TV and she gets off the couch takes off her underwear and pees on the living room floor and then goes back to the couch so she didn't miss any of her show.  I was a bit mad but gently reminded her that I can pause a show and that she needs to pee in the potty. 

The next day we went to Target and I say okay Marin lets pee before we start and she insists she does not have to pee maybe a rookie mistake but I say okay and next thing I know in the fruit aisle she is peeing all over our grocery cart.  I take her out of the cart set her down to clean up the puddle and she runs away from me and pees all over the floor in front of the produce and then she laughs.  At this point Symeon is laughing and encouraging her and I am ready to crawl under the cart but won't because it is covered in urine and sitting in a puddle of it. 

Another day she comes to me and says Mommy I poop in the potty please have treat and say okay show me and I go into the bathroom and there is poop in the potty but yet something does not seem quite right.  My mother instinct, a bit of deductive reasoning, and some keen observation skills helped me piece it together.  I guess he pooped in her pants but knows she only gets a treat if she poops in the potty so she went to the bathroom took off her pants and dumped the poop in the potty.  You are probably wondering what gave her away well it was the poopy pants on the floor, the poop the missed the potty and fell on the floor, the poop smeared all over the toilet seat when she put her poopy butt down on it and the large amount of poop still stuck to her butt.  But with all honesty she looked up at me and said poop in the potty mommy me get a treat.  I busted out laughing and told her the poop had to come from her butt to the potty and not via her underwear to the potty for the treat.   Needles to say she was not happy. 

So potty training we have our days our ups and downs and we continue to chug along.  I know she can poop and pee in the potty anytime she wants at this point she just chooses not to and I am not sure what to do with that.  I guess we can only wait and see.  I must confess as well that I am unable to clean poop out of underwear I just can't do it so every time she poops in them they go in the trash so needles to say we have had to buy a few more pairs to get us through.  I am hopeful we won't have to get to many more until we are done.  If you have any tips please feel free to offer any suggestions I am not quite sure what to do with her.