crib wet, diaper dry

11.5 months old.

Feels like things are snowballing on the potty training front.

First, she's ripping her diapers off before having to go whether I'm there or not.

When I catch it as a cue we can get the pee in the potty. When it happens in the crib the sheets end up wet because I've placed her in there to be safe while I go do something else like make dinner. Wish she'd start doing some kind of verbal alert to go with all this so I know to come get her out of the crib and not miss the short window between "diaper off, baby pees."

She used to scream when in a wet diaper but now that she takes the diapers off and doesn't wet herself I don't know it's happening/happened if I am not in the room til I see the puddle on the sheets and her playing half naked and dry nearby. Strangely, when she's NOT in the crib she doesn't pee on the floor... she comes to find me.

I don't know how to teach her to call out "pee!" I know she can say it, but she doesn't use it for pee announcements yet.

Second, she can sit on the potty and sit "backwards." We have a little trouble sometimes about getting the aim centered or sitting on it the wrong way around, but she's sitting on it herself and pauses in play to go sit on it. If I ask here where the potty is she looks around for it. So she knows what it is and she knows it is for sitting.

Although the connection has yet been made, she's so close to putting "take diaper off before pee" and "go sit on potty" I can't help but feel excited! Yay!