Potty Training Twins: Part 5 of a Billion

Oh no... I hopped on Facebook today and I was told I had "memories to look back on". I followed the notification link and found out that one of my "memories" was my blog post "Potty Training Twins: Part 2 of a Billion".... ugh... I've been at this for over a year! In all fairness, we have taken MONTHS off in the attempt. We tried for a few days straight last Fall, and we have been working on it off and on since then. Part of that is my fault because it's a LOT of work and I keep finding better things to do with my time than clean up accidents and pull my hair out. Part of the fault lies with my 2 stubborn little ladies.
I have heard from many people that "they'll do it when they're ready". I honestly don't know how much more "ready" they can be! They beg me to change their diaper as soon as they go in it. They will take off their diapers because they're too wet. They will undress themselves. They will help me change themselves. They will NOT go potty in the bath tub. And a few days ago we found them pretending to change each other's diapers... The only thing apparently they are NOT ready for is to actually go in the toilet or their little potties. Ugh...
Every time I ask them if they need to go to the bathroom or if they want to wear underwear, they say, "No. Diaper." Which loosely translated means, "No thanks, I'm good. I'll just wear a diaper for the rest of my life just like all the other twins in the world because it is IMPOSSIBLE to train us to use the facilities."
One of the little potties has been turned into a step stool because that's all it's good for at the moment.

To be honest, I THINK about potty training way more than actually doing something about it.
Last week when we really put some effort in it, the girls wore underwear for the majority of the day 3 days in a row. They didn't go potty in the bathroom once. Not a single time. Actually, that's a lie. Hailey had an accident all over the bathroom floor. Other than that, they would run around and play (basically as far away from me as possible) and then I'd hear them scream my name. Instead of going anywhere near the bathroom, they'd hobble over to me (you know, trying not to let their wet underwear touch their legs) and in their cute little overwhelmed voices tell me they went potty. On a positive note, they wore underwear for nap time all 3 days and they woke up dry each time! After day three, Melanie started telling me a while after she'd had an accident. Like, "Oh, by the way Mom, I peed like 20 minutes ago. Thought you'd like to know." (That's where I started pulling out my hair...) She didn't even care. So we lost the underwear completely. Then, they started wandering outside... without any pants on... Yeah, that didn't last long.
There was no reward system being used because nothing was happening in the progress department. Their big brother started preschool last week. We are involved with a co-op group and I was the teacher for the first day and the helper for the second, so the girls got to join us. After our second class, I had a few weeks off from teaching. I would be dropping Jackson off at other houses every Tuesday and Thursday for a few weeks. I decided to tell my girls that they couldn't go to preschool because they were too little. Because they were still in diapers. On Tuesday we dropped Jackson off at preschool and Melanie cried and cried because she couldn't go. Being the mean mom that I am, I thought to myself, "Yes! Maybe this will be just what we need!" So I took the girls home, and explained to them that if they could learn to go potty in the toilet like big girls that they could start going to preschool again (at least when it was my turn to teach, I had no idea what I was going to do if this actually worked). I asked them if they wanted to wear underwear. I was so hopeful up until they both told me no and pooped in their diapers 5 minutes later...
That about sums up my last YEAR of potty training twins... or NOT potty training them really...
So, what is my plan moving forward? First of all, I'm not giving up. I do NOT want to be changing their diapers when they are 3.
See this box of diapers?

It's almost empty. Now we do have other new boxes (my husband found a deal online), but I THINK I'm going to show this to my girls and tell them that's all the diapers we have left. I'll let them run around tomorrow without underwear (covering my floors with towels of course) and maybe bribe myself a little. Obviously attempting to bribe them isn't working... even if I have 2 purple princess crowns and wands to give them if they can get out of diapers...
Wish me luck! (again)