A Potty Story

**** FAIR WARNING - THIS IS A POST ALL ABOUT BODILY FUNCTIONS OF A 3 YEAR OLD, and a rather long one at that  ****


Sunday night came and we discovered that we were down to the last diaper for Adam,and I asked him if he wanted to start wearing big boy undies. He normally says he wants to keep wearing diapers but that time he chose the undies. Sunday morning he woke up and we asked again, should we run to the store for diapers or was he going to start using the potty. Again he said no to diapers, so we out him in pull ups and told him he needed to tell us when he needed to go. Now we've tried the pull up thing before with no success. He'd always go in them and then say that the pee went away. I think they were too close to diapers for him to tell the difference but I figured it was a place to start. The first part of the day we weren't having any luck. He had peed in his pull ups multiple times and there hadn't been any in the potty. At noon Jocelyn and I left to go to a baby shower so it was just Daddy and Adam at home to carry on. I got a text while out saying that after yet another accident Daddy decided the pull ups weren't working so he striped him down to nothing and told him there was nothing to catch the pee so he had to either sit on the potty or go outside. Daddy also told him that he could have a OtterPop if he peed in potty or outside twice so after many accidents he managed to pee outside twice and once on the potty.

Monday we started over again with a fresh plate and a naked toddler. It seemed like him being without clothes worked best. Those pull ups weren't working during the day (we use them at night since he's not use to waking up to pee) and the undies were just getting in the way. We also discovered that he didn't like sitting down to pee and wanted to stand up like daddy does. He managed to pee standing up in the toilet, he's not a fan of the potty chair we got him, quiet a few times in the morning/early afternoon. Then I started getting the house ready to have people over for a Pampered Chef party and wasn't watching him like I should. I noticed the smell first, then heard the foot steps running to the bathroom. As I walked back there I saw 3 small pieces of poo on the floor. Our first poo accident. :(
After cleaning him up we put on some undies since "you can't be naked when people are here" and went about over day. I sort of blame myself for the lack of parenting the rest of the night that resulted in another poo episode. I did notice at one point that he was peeing outside while playing with some friends. But overall Monday evening wasn't a great success but we were see some progress.

Tuesday was the third day of training and started off with a pee in the potty. YAY! We had continued success with peeing standing up at the "big potty" and he got a few OtterPops. lol. I was waiting for the time when he would need to poo since we had yet to go on the potty. I kept asking ans asking and at one point he sat on the potty for probably 20 minutes because I was certain he was going to poop. The day before when he had his first poo accident I had asked him if he had to go and he said no then not even 5 minutes later he was running down the hall. So I didn't want to let him up thinking that as soon as I did he would have an accident. Well, he never did poo but said he had to pee so I called it a wash. We had told him that if he went poop in the potty he would get a Push Up Pop instead of the OtterPop and he was really wanting one. He went running back there and Jeff went to see what he was doing. I hear him say "do you want to green seat (top of the potty chair) or to hold yourself up on the big potty?" Being the rockstar that he is he chose to hold himself up and managed to poo on the potty!! Huge excitement all around. At that point I decided I couldn't put off going to the store and he said he wanted to go with. I asked him if he wanted to wear the pull ups or undies. He chose the undies and while I was a little scared I followed his lead and let him wear the undies. Our first successful trip out of the house ensued. We only had one accident Monday.

So far this morning (day 4 of training) we have been doing great. Peed three times this morning and is loving the stickers he gets to put on the chart. I've pretty sure that he is getting the hang of it and am super proud of the progress he has made in the past 4 days!



UPDATE: Since posting this he has done the potty dance and barely missed the toilet and also had a poo accident. Hopefully I didn't jinx it by posting this earlier than should have. Fingers crossed to no more accidents

one day i'll be able to post regularly.....

 

 

 

 

They were both just staring at the screen, enchanted by Mickey and his Clubhouse

I had originally planned to keep a weekly update of Jocelyn's growth and the happenings around here but as it sometimes does time has gotten away from me. I can't believe that she is 5 weeks already. I weighed her the other day and I may have messed it up but I calculated her at 8.8 pounds. For some reason that seems like a lot to me but I guess we'll see how much she really does weigh at her 2 month appointment in a few weeks.
Lately we've just been hanging out at home, the weather has been kind of stinky. Rainy and Cold. :(
Can't wait for it to be warm and sunny for more than one day, I have visions of playing in the back yard and visiting the local parks. I know she'll be a little young to go to the local lakes but mom has offered to babysit so Adam and I can go. 
Jeff and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary on Tuesday. We had tossed the idea of leaving the kids with some one and going out to a nice dinner but in the end we decided to stay home and hang with the kids. Seemed fitting since this is our live now. I am just grateful that I found someone that I want to spend the "nothing days" with. You know those days that you don't do anything and you barely have enough energy to take a shower/change out of the pjs. :)

 

My SIL took monthly pic with my niece so I thought I'd give it a try :)

She spit up right after I took some pics so I figured better get some semi-naked baby pics

Adam has become such a great big brother I can't believe how great he is with her. He is always trying to put her pacifier back in if she spits it out. He has on more than one occasion tried to get her to play with him. He is always worried when she cries, he goes and checks on her and reports back. Telling us if she's hungry or tired or "just talking". I couldn't ask for a better first born/bigger sibling. He never gets mad when I have to say "just a minute" or "not now, I'm feeding Jocelyn".

Such a amazing big brother <3