Persistence is Key....Right?

I have seen many of these potty training posts going around these days. I decided to post my own adventures in potty training. Let me begin by saying that I am the world's worst potty trainer. I H-A-T-E it! I am a uber-freak about cleanliness and the last thing I wanted was pee-pee on my brand new carpet! But after having the first two potty accidents at my house, (from other people's kids!) I felt we were sufficiently Christened and it was time to start trying. Audrey's almost 2 1/2 and really, really tall and we're starting to get looks from all of the potty training police mommies.
We started last week and I wasn't very consistent. After missing the potty on almost every single try, I gave up over the weekend. Refreshed and renewed from a weekend of rest, I made a commitment to myself to give it another go! My thoughts were that if I drown her in liquids, we could sit on the potty every hour on the hour and things would roll smoothly. I bought Audrey her very own box of Capri Suns and we've been downin' those puppies like mad. Unfortunately it hasn't happened at all like in envisioned! So far today we have gone through 6, count them... 6, pairs of panties. My favorite part of all is that we haven't even had one success on the pot! I'm trying to keep a positive attitude, but as soon as I took this picture, I walked into the loft to set my camera down. (This took me all of 4 seconds.) In that time, Audrey had hopped down off the potty, managed to stand right over the heat vent, and peed right down the heat vent! Mmmmm! That's going to smell nice when the heater kicks on this fall. Arghh!!!

I just keep telling myself, "Don't give up! Don't give up! Don't give up!"