Recent Obstacles and Successes with EC

For about a month, my 1.5 year old has been in undies at home.  We still have her in diapers when we are out and for sleep times.  While we are out, she still will usually signal when she needs to go and almost never goes in her diaper at all.

At home, she is in undies and it is incredibly rare she will wet them. An "obstacle" we have been facing with her is that she has figured out how to get what she wants haha!  If we are busy doing other things, she will sign for potty and we will say to go to the bathroom and she will bypass it and run into her room.  So, basically she will use "potty" as a sign for "follow me" :)  Which is cute the first couple of times but gets exhausting after a while.

We also use Time Out at our house.  She will sign for anything while in time out to find a reason to get out.  She would sign for "potty" too and then, I swear to you, would make herself go!  So I started keeping a little potty near by but out of site where we go for time out.  This has worked, though, now I think she will purposefully do things to go into time out just to use the little potty!  Toddlers can be so manipulative!  (Her face is quite priceless too when she is in time out.  She batts her eyes and desperately tries to appear perfectly innocent.  She gets this from her daddy lol)

So those obstacles really aren't that bad.  Mostly they are funny, yet occasionally tiring.  The other obstacle is that when we recently had Grandpa watch her, she wet through 3 undies until he gave up and just put a diaper on her.  Either she doesn't sign for him or he doesn't catch the sign.  She will sign to me when we are out at Costco on the other end of the store and can hold it until we get to the potty, so I don't think it's that he doesn't move fast enough.  There just isn't that communication there.  We rarely leave her with anyone so I don't know if she just isn't sure about communicating with other people in general about needing to go or if it was just a fluke, etc.