Well hello there! Does anyone remember me??
sas- IKWYM about the pulling the nappies off business... if they're velcro fastening, try putting them on back to front for a while, if you're determined that your DD should keep them on. Otherwise, side-snappers or snap-fastening nappies seem to be harder for little ones to get off or they're not as interested in trying for some reason. Maybe because they don't make that lovely velcro-ripping sound?
I got a potty and started putting it in DS's room, telling him about it, and putting DS on it (with nappy on still, at first) at about 5-6 months, just to get him used to it and let him know what it was for and that it wasn't something unnatural or to be frightened of. He took to it really well, and I just never made a big deal out of it. Then I progressively introduced a kids' toilet seat insert (about $5 from Kmart, I think) and just kept explaining that we do pee-pee and caca (his words) in the toilet and to tell me if he needed to go. I think if we hadn't had so many disruptions in the last 6 months (overseas travel, moving house, starting childcare) he would be much closer to being fully TTed. As it is, he is pretty much TTed at home now and getting better all the time at day care now that I've taken him out of the centre and he's at family daycare with older, TTed kids. It was too much for the staff to handle at the CCC as he was the ONLY kid out of 40+ that was in cloth nappies, and was the youngest kid to be at least partly TTed. It seemed too difficult to just put him on the toilet when he asked, as they were too busy with so many other kids.
We have had to go back to full-time nappies for the last week or so, as DS has had a bout of diarrhea, possibly caused by teething or a food intolerance (or both! such fun. ). It's too hard for him to tell me he needs to go when it's a sneaky pooh. Poor boy has a terrible rash with it, so it's no fun at all.
Like Bimboo said, it's great not to have any of those issues that a lot of kids have with toileting or a fear associated with it. There's some pretty helpful info on a website called tribalbaby. I think it's an org site.
I soooo miss shopping for fluff though! I was sorting thru some of DS's teeny NB stuff and found an itti d'lish. Almost got clucky for a minute there! Woah.