Potty Training Patience...

Potty Training- no two words frustrate me more than these. I have very little patience for potty trainig. God spoiled us when he sent us Emma. He fooled us into thinking that child rearing was simple and that it took very little effort to teach them. Emma sat up at 4 months, she walked at 9 months, she knew her colors and shapes before she could even say them. Jason and I just had to show her what to do one time and she would just do it. I don't know where she gets it from, but the child is smart. Emma potty trained in three days- literally. She turned two on a Monday and by Friday she was wearing big girl panties. She was out of a nighttime pull-up within about three weeks and in the last two years has maybe had 2 accidents. I think she came with an easy button. I loved it, but then God sent me a reality check.
Lydia came into the world and we realized that Emma was the exception not the rule. Lydia loves being the baby. She was content to sit and let us bring her what she needed so she didn't walk until 15 months. She doesn't like to read or be still and she has very little tolerance to learn anything new. Don't get me wrong, she is smart. Lydia can figure out how anything works. She can take something apart and put it back together the first time. At two years old she was already speaking in full sentences, and she has an amazing ability to remember names and faces. She just doesn't care to learn about things she is not interested in. This includes potty training.
I started taking her to the potty months ago, but nothing. She loves to sit on the potty, read books on the potty, sing on the potty, but she refuses to potty in the potty. She likes to use it as a step stool so she can reach the sink and she likes that it makes the perfect chair for the baby dolls, she just doesn't like for it to be the perfect potty for her to use. I think she is ready. She can tell you when she goes in her diaper and she will even go get a clean diaper so you can change her. She knows what the potty is for and how to use toilet paper. She just doesn't do it.
I have tried everything from stickers to gummy bears. I even got a different potty because I thought she just didn't like the one we had. Nothing!
Then the answer to my problem came in the form of an e-mail. A friend of mine e-mailed me a motivational video the other day. The man in the video said to set a goal, write it down on a piece of paper, put it in your pocket, look at it everyday and it will happen. All this work and that was all I had to do? Lydia should be trained anyday now;)
"We pray that you will be strengthened with His glorious power so that you will have all the patience and endurance you need." Colossians 1:11a