Too Potty Trained

**Disclaimer: I am thrilled that Ali is potty trained and these are just minor complaints.

Ali has been officially potty trained since the beginning of August (no accidents). She still wears diapers at night and naps however because I would rather her sleep than worry about that just yet. 

I must say that I am so happy Ali is potty trained and will happily deal with these little annoyances for the major benefit of not having to worry about diapers . . . however . . . she has realized that the potty is a perfect "get out of jail free" card.

If she doesn't want to sit at the table at dinnertime "I have to go potty" and off she goes. To her credit, she always goes and sits on the potty. Whether or not she actually goes is up for debate since she takes care of everything herself (as long as it's just pee). I do think she goes most of the time (and usually bring it out to show us "I peed in the potty - see!"

Recently, she has started using her "potty card" at bedtime - or more precisely - after she has been put in bed. She will start crying and saying "I peed my pull-up!" Again, to her credit, her pull-up has always been a bit wet or she will sit on the potty and go . . . 

We have even started trying to get her to go on the potty before we put her in bed. This sounds like as simple enough idea, but since the beginning of the summer she refuses to sit on the potty if she is prompted and only does it on her own accord, so this sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. Anyway, every few nights she's crying to get out of bed and get a new diaper and sit on the potty. I know some people have great luck putting a potty chair in the child's room but Ali will not get out of bed until someone opens her door (again - not complaining - the fact that she treats her toddler bed as an impenetrable wall when she is alone in her room is wonderful), so even if the potty chair was in her room she would still yell for one of us first.

This has made me say I really only want her potty trained between the hours of 7 am and 7 pm . . . is that too much to ask?

Random side note - in the past few days Ali has started putting her finger up by her mouth and saying "I'm thinking". If I get a picture I will post.