Update: 14 mos at the end of this week.
Julia now can be understood by other people besides me and Paul. She hisses "Ssssssss!" at people and smacks them on the leg to let them know she wants to go. So other relatives can now take her... usually grandparents.
Her timing is still a bit wonky -- sometimes she announces her need WAY too soon. She gets bored sitting and we get bored taking her 2-3 times before she gets the show on the road.
Paul taught her to say "Done" when she is finished. She sometimes uses it correctly, sometimes just says it to be let off early. He didn't warn his mother about this when she babysat so Julia surprised Nana by announcing "Done!" once she got her sitting on the potty.
Last weekend she flipped out at Nancy's house. Refused to use their bathroom and would cry because she had to pee. We have no idea what scared her so. No problems this weekend. Paul took her to a restaurant toilet and a man overheard him say "ssssss!" at her to go and he joked from the next stall "I don't know if that's doing much for her but it's helping me out!"
She can understand simple commands and be talked through the process with a potty chair.
She hisses. Then I talk...
"I hear you... you have to potty. Ok...Diaper off. Take the diaper off."
"Now find the potty. Where is it? Very good -- that's a potty."
"Sit on the potty. Put your bottom on the seat. Sit on the potty. Ok, you are sitting."
"What do we say on the potty? (She hisses) That's right... Sssssss."
And if on the toddler ring on a regular toilet...
"Where is the flush? (She points to it, but not strong enough to pull it yet)"
Has a vague idea toilet paper goes around her crotch somewhere but still too keen on just unrolling the whole roll and tearing it up so we don't let her handle it much.
Will return the potty insert to the potty after it is emptied and cleaned out. Can't yet figure how to replace it properly but at least gets it back to the chair.
Will step into panties to have them pulled up when told to come put them on, but still gets confused as to how to take them off herself so we're sticking mainly to cloth fitted diapers so she can undress on her own and go with direction.
Still sobs if she has an accident and tries to get naked and throw away the offending diaper. Trying to get her to call out "Pee!" or something louder than just hissing because while hissing is a nice reliable cue, I can't hear that when I'm cooking dinner in the kitchen and she's in the crib playing.
Poop is still mainly a case of being available when it's her poo time at night and just getting her on the toilet. She goes spacey-eyed and blanks out and forgets or doesn't realzie she can say "Sssss!" to alert us.
But basically chugging along.
