Tales from the Potty - Day 1

This morning started off AMAZING! Luke woke up, we ate breakfast, and then he threw all of his diapers into a garbage bag (don't worry - I didn't actually throw the diapers away...are you kidding??? those things are expensive! They will be put away in the basement for the next baby). As Luke was putting the diapers in the garbage, he was laughing and we were singing "Lukey is a big boy, NO MORE DIAPERS!" He was getting a kick out of this song! Then it was time to put on the big boy underwear. His first underwear of choice was a Mickey Mouse pair. We talked about going pee pee on the potty and keeping Mickey Mouse dry. We headed to the bathroom where he sat on his potty and I encouraged him to go pee. I knew he just drank a whole lot at breakfast so he should be ready to go! He actually said, "No, Mommy" when I was sitting in the bathroom with him...he wanted me out. I walked away for one second and then I heard the music...Luke had peed (his potty plays music when he goes). I couldn't believe it - I made a HUGE deal out of this and was so excited! Lukey got a Thomas sticker to put on his potty chart and lots of praise from his Mommy. This potty training thing isn't going to be so bad....

And then the next 5 hours happened :( Let's just say we've gone through 5 of our 27 pairs of underwear so far. I would constantly remind him to tell me when he had to go potty, we would check to make sure Mickey Mouse or whatever character he was wearing on another pair of underwear were dry and he would gets lots of praise and another reminder to tell me when he has to go (we are somewhat following the 3-Day Potty Training Method). Unfortunately, on the times we would sit on the potty, he wouldn't go even though I knew he had to and within 5 minutes, he would have an accident. The problem...he didn't care about these accidents. Sigh! I was beginning to wonder what we were thinking...

After lunch and more potty visits with no success, Luke told me he was tired and wanted to go to sleep. He went down for his nap around 12:15 and is still sleeping (it's 2:30 right now). I will say he has a pretty bad cold, but he is still playful and acting fine so we decided not to postpone the potty training that we had planned for the weekend. After an unsuccessful morning, I did put a pull-up on him before his nap. Our initial thought was not to do this, at least at nap time, since he usually wakes up pretty dry, but I knew he was going to sleep for a long time and a pull-up at this point was probably best!

Maybe a nap is just what Luke needed - we'll see...Tales from the Potty to continue....

So he woke up around 2:45 and I put him on the potty right away. He sat there for quite awhile but didn't go - his pull-up was pretty wet when he woke up. So...we put on some underwear and headed back downstairs. After drinking water & juice, numerous potty visits and nothing happening, he FINALLY went again in the potty around 4:20! We had the biggest potty party ever! I thought maybe this was a turning point because I decided to give Luke a Thomas sticker AND a dinosaur I picked up as part of my big bag of potty rewards the other day - he was very excited about the dinosaur!

Wally got home just before 5 and Luke was excited to show Daddy how he goes potty. He pulled his underwear down and sat on the potty, but nothing - at least he was excited about it. That was about the last time he was excited about it for the night. It was a fight the rest of the night to get Luke to do anything - eat, go potty, even watch a movie. I don't know if he isn't feeling well or if he just isn't digging this potty stuff. Right now, I'm not digging this potty stuff either. I feel pretty defeated today, but we will give it another go tomorrow. Stay tuned...

We were 2/8 today - 2 pees on the potty, 6 accidents - hey, that's like batting .225 right?!?! Could be worse!