Tales from the Potty - Day 4

Today went pretty well up until the last few hours.

Luke peed on the potty right away when he woke up in the morning - SUCCESS!

Around 11, he showed Barney how to pee on the potty too - SUCCESS!

Just before 1, he peed again and seemed to attempt to poop (he was pushing, but I think he got scared) - SUCCESS!

At this point I was actually hoping he would just poop in his pull-up sometime during naptime so I could quit worrying about it. Well, he did! He was playing in his crib for a bit rather than napping and then he yelled, "Mommy, I poop!". Hey, at least he told me he did! After I changed him, he wasn't digging naptime so we decided to try our first outing in big boy underwear - the grocery store. NO PROBLEM!

As soon as we got back from the grocery store, he peed on the potty - SUCCESS!

I tried to put him down for his nap then with underwear on thinking we would give it a whirl since he just went and was dry during naptime yesterday; however, Luke really wasn't in the mood for a nap. It was getting late so we decided to just forgo the nap and do an early bedtime.

Unfortunately the next few hours didn't go so well. Luke had 2 accidents. Both of which probably could have been avoided if we would have put him on the potty, but I was trying to let him take the lead and tell us. He does, but not until it's too late. He just says "Elmo all wet" or "Thomas all wet" and then runs to the potty when we tell him. Sigh! So he is pee-trained so long as WE put him on the potty when we think it's necessary.

Luke really hasn't been eating well at all for the past week. Breakfast always goes well so we try to fill him up as much as we can, but lunch and dinner has basically been zippo! I know he is battling a bad cold and most likely a loss of appetite (we are all struggling with this in this household), but he is starting to really stress me out about not eating...he has NOT had a fever at all with this cold and it is a runny nose and cough. He doesn't seem miserable at all, but it is going on a week, and I am thinking a call to the doctor might be necessary - I always struggle with this...so anyways...dinner was a disaster, bathtime was a disaster and it was just meltdown city. Luke went to bed at 6:55 tonight!

We are back to daycare tomorrow so we will see how potty training goes there. They usually follow the method of putting the child on the potty every half-hour to an hour, but at some point the kids have to decide they need to go on their own right?!?! That is what we were trying to do all weekend, but especially at the end of today. My thinking after going through 3 days of this is that you do need to put the child on the potty every so often to get them used to the idea of peeing in the potty at first, build their confidence, and wait for them to understand when they need to go. I will let daycare know how we did it all weekend and our results and we'll see how it goes. I certainly don't want to say "screw it!" and put the diapers back on because he is doing really well and I think he will get it within a couple of weeks, but I will not be potty training my child for months...if he doesn't get it, we will revisit it in the spring sometime.

Thanks for reading my long-winded potty tales...I know they aren't all that interesting and it's mostly me just putting my thoughts in writing! So if you have made it this far, here are a few pics from our weekend (I forgot I did take some pics on Friday).



Yes, that is a sleeping bag over the dining room chair. Look, I knew there would be accidents so I was trying to make clean up as easy as possible. I also had a huge blanket sprawled across the area rug in the living room and a "special blanket" for him to sit on on the couch :)


This was Luke at 'naptime' today. At night lately, he asks to "rock-a-bye baby" so we read books and rock for a little bit before laying him in his bed. He has been wanting to rock for longer and longer and I'm not complaining about the cuddles. However, today, he wanted to "rock-a-bye baby" Barney on his own. I thought for sure he was going to fall asleep in the chair, but it didn't happen!


And some video!