Potty Training

We tried to potty train our youngest last summer, however she had other plans. She refused to sit on the potty and when we tried to make her, she would scream at us. It didn't take too long before we decided our hearing was more important than her being out of diapers. So we stopped talking to her about it.
Fast forward to December and she is asking us if she can sit on the potty. "YES!" we say enthusiastically. Sometimes she would go potty but mostly she would just sit there and then get down. This is great; she is getting the idea down.
After two weeks of this, she poops on the potty. We are so excited and we give her the present that has been wrapped and waiting for this momentous occasion since June. It has been there so long, M can't remember what he put in it, so it's a surprise for us all.

L with her gift

After this, she goes poop on the potty every couple of days, but she refuses to pee. At first I am disappointed, but then realize if she is going to choose only one to do, I would prefer it to be poop. It's so much nicer to change a wet diaper than a messy one.
By the new year she is doing all her business on the potty. She is wearing underwear during the day and a diaper at night. She still has a hard time waking up to go to the bathroom and when we try to wake her she is GRUMPY! But she has has no accidents and is great about telling us when she needs to go potty.
This experience has been, by far, much easier than with our older child. For those of you who are trying to potty train and are going nuts trying to get it done, I say stop. Completely stop and wait until they come to you. They will eventually be potty trained, you can be sure of that, and if you do it on their terms, it will be so much easier on all of you.