Potty Training

I don't know if I am the only one or not, but I find potty training so overwhelming!!! I haven't pushed Izzy really at all because most people I had talked to said when they are ready you will know and it will make it soooo much easier if they are ready. And for the longest time she really had no interest.

So the last couple of weeks Izzy has been peeing on the potty when she wants too! I had bought a potty seat that fits on teh regular potty a while ago but she never really used it. Well my mom had a stand alone potty chair at her house and shockingly she used it when she was at my mom's....so my mom had an extra in her basement from when my neices potty trained so I took it home and put it in the half bath on our main floor. Sure enough she will use it. Sometimes when I ask if she wants to go, she says no thank you! Othertimes she will do it. And a couple of times she has actually told me she had to go. She will not poop on the potty though, she is very adament about that!

So do I take a long weekend, buy some underwear and push the issue or do I just leave it casual for now? Part of me for selfish reasons wants to leave it casual for a while because lets be honest...diapers are pretty convientent for the parents! We have a trip coming up next weekend, going to Wisconsin by car so I don't want to do it before then b/c then it will take us forever to get to wisconsin we will have to stop all teh time to see if she has to go potty! See selfish...is this bad of me. I am thinking that I will buy the underwear and let her try them out in the next couple of weeks and go from there...i would be really nice to have her potty trained by the end of the summer.....

Any great tips or words of advice from the mom's out there that come across my blog?