Her progress

Rachel has done super well with potty training. I had a feeling she would, considering how eager she was to start. Sunday went fine. She drank lots of fluids for us, peed about every 15-20 minutes and only had 3 accidents all day. Each time she wet her pants she'd run into the room we were in yelling "I went pee-pee, I need clean underwears!" So I had to keep reminding her that the underwear needs to stay dry and the pee-pee needs to go in the potty every time. Then Monday started off not so good at all. I took the over load of fluids away and let her just drink as she wanted to and told her "tell Mommy when you need to go potty". She had many accidents in the morning. Each time she would act totally un-bothered by it. She came to the potty, took her pants off, and asked for new ones. I sat there thinking "there's no way we're going to do this." So I told her she didn't get any candy or stickers unless the pee-pee went IN the potty.
I would say for 4 hours we struggled, feeling like maybe she just wasn't getting it, but I told myself I was hanging in there for 14 full days before giving up.
By Monday, later afternoon, she was having way less accidents and getting to the potty by herself to go. At bedtime I put her in a diaper and she continued to get out of bed to go potty. :) I had to finally tell her that eventually she needs to just fall asleep and if she goes in her diaper, its okay because she's sleeping. She seemed OK with that idea... but got up probably 4 times to go, before she fell asleep.

She woke up this morning, came into our room and said "Mommy! I need to take off my diaper and get underpants!" I took her diaper off and noticed... completely dry! Huge surprise, since Ethan doesn't even do that yet. We were so proud of her, but I continued telling myself that she still could slip back. So far, all day today, she hasn't wanted to be reminded. Every time I say "do you need to use the potty?" she replies with "No... I will tell you when its coming." And she's right! She's been walking to the potty, taking her own pants down and going all by herself. We even ran some errands (I was so worried the whole time) and when I would say "Rache, are you still dry?" she'd reply with "Yes Mommy... I will tell you when I need to go." :)
We've been amazed. Ethan wasn't very hard to train either, but he was practically 3 years old, so we kind of assumed it would go fast.

We're heading off to Target to buy her prize for being such a big girl... she's requested a pink nerf gun. :)