Special Treats

Hana has showed interest in sleeping in big girl panties lately. Supposedly kids don't really have the ability to make it though the night without pottying consistently until after they are three years old, but hey, the experts don't know my kid, right?! A couple weeks ago she begged to wear panties to bed, so we let her. We talked about it a lot first, but sent her to her waterproof-mattress-covered bed wearing panties. The next morning I found her wet so we talked more about it. For the past couple days she has been on a roll of staying dry both during the day and at night. She has even got up to use the potty in her room in the middle of the night. I definitely don't want to push the subject, but I definitely do want to encourage it, so I have decided that every time she wakes up (night and nap) dry she gets a special treat. After a dry night she gets a special breakfast and after a dry nap she gets a special snack. What's a special breakfast or snack, you ask? Well, for us it's lots of different things. Yesterday her special snack was this:

Crushed almond crackers topped with squirty cheese and a side of bread-and-butter pickles. The funny thing though is that I bought the cheese thinking it would encourage her to eat the crackers. I bought them some time ago and she would never eat them when I gave them to her. If I gave her sliced cheese, she would just eat the cheese and leave the cracker. I figured this cheese sticks to the cracker, so maybe it would work. The outcome? She scraped the cheese off in a pile on top of the table and said, "I just wanna eat the octagon cookies!" (Yes, I realize they are crackers and not cookies I also realize they are hexagon-shaped rather than octagon-shaped, but, hey! she's not even three-years old! Cut her some slack!) At least I found a way to get her to eat those almond crackers, I guess. LOL! She had absolutely no problem eating those bread-and-butter pickles, though!