*Now I have to tell you this is no small feat. In the past few days, weeks, and months, we've had our difficulties. And I've been patient because we've gone through lots of changes: a new house, Daddy being deployed, a 3 month trip to the southeast, and now back home again. He has told me on numerous occasions "I don't want to wear big boy underwear, I wear diapers." Or at other times I hear, "No, I'm not a big boy. I'm little. I pee pee in my diaper." So...It hasn't been easy. And we've tried big boy underwear before. It wasn't successful. He'd wet them literally every 10 minutes. So after going through 6 pairs...I'd give up. (Score one for Andrew)
Now back to today: We put the underwear on at 8 am. We ate breakfast, went to the potty, played, went to the potty again, played some more, went potty....you get the idea. So far so EXCELLENT. I was shocked. Soon it was 3 pm and still NO ACCIDENTS! Now the real test...a run to walmart. Before we left we went potty and I put him in a pull up just in case. He hadn't taken a nap at this point and I knew he'd fall asleep in the car and I didn't want to deal with washing that seat!
He fell asleep in the car, walked around walmart, got a sprite on the way out for being such a good boy, and drank the sprite all the way home. We ran to the post office and got stuck in traffic, so we made it home at 6:30. I took him straight to the potty, but expecting to see a wet pull up. And what to my surprise.....IT WAS DRY AS A BONE! I have never been so proud! (After all it's the small victories right?)
However, it can't all be perfect. Around 7, we were outside pulling more weeds from the yard, (A task that I'll be doing for quite some time) when I heard a familiar grunting sound. *Uh oh! I tried my hardest to get him to the potty, but it was too late! We had our first accident 11 hours into the day. But I knew it was coming b/c he NEVER and I mean NEVER goes #2 in the potty. When we can master that one, I'll know we're in business!
Anyway, it was such an awesome day that I had to share with all of you! Maybe potty training will be like when he started walking. He had been "walking" by holding one of my fingers for MONTHS and then one day he just took off! I'm hoping that's how it is with this. We've had the potty (per Andrew's request) since he was 15 months old. He'll go....SOMETIMES but never consistently. Maybe today was the day!
I'll keep you posted.
3 comments:
So great - we had been trying for a long time with Abigail as well and then suddenly it just started clicking. We've still got a ways to go but I think we'll be totally done by the time Wil gets home.
Hip Hip Hooray!! You are on your way! Keep it up! He'll get it and each day gets better! It took Trevor two weeks. I did lots of puddle mopping and big boy underwear washing, but we made it!
My goal is to be done (except for maybe night time diapers) when Drew gets home.
Today...he POOPED in the potty! (much to his dismay) And if you know Andrew..that's no small feat!
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