When we moved him to a big boy bedroom in March, he was about 20-21 months old. It was about that same time that he started to show interest in using the potty. We decided to purchase a little potty and some pull-ups just to see how interested he was in the potty. Turns out he thought it was fun, but wasn't consistent enough with that interest for me to attempt and train him (not to mention, I was about 3.5 months pregnant with the twins at that time). Kevin and I discussed what we wanted to do, and decided it was best to wait until after the twins were already here.
At daycare, he moved up into the 2 year old class in August, and they start to put them on the potty because some of the kids in his class are already potty trained (G is one of the younger ones in his class - sweet summer baby). He has picked up a lot from watching the other kids, and has even used the potty some at school. He's become very consistent with using the potty before bath time and in the morning at home, so we decided....it is time.
Which brings us to today...
We got a little bit of a later start than I wanted to, because Grady had an eye appointment this morning. So after we got his eyes checked out, we came home and built a fort and stripped him down. I explained that if he needs to pee pee he can go use his potty in the bathroom.
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| We started off with a movie in the fort (with our cars and blankie, of course) |
Before starting this training, I did a little bit of research and reading on how to potty train. Just like sleep training babies it seems that everyone has their own opinion/approach and some even contradict one another. So I basically decided to wing it. I'm taking some ideas of what I read and then basically figuring it out first hand.
I let Grady start off in his fort that I built him in the living room. I put down layers of blankets and set up the iPad with a movie on it. Within 10 minutes I heard "Uh oh, mommy! I poo pooed in the floor." (Grady calls both #1 and #2 poo poo, and since he had a dirty diaper at the eye doctor already, I doubted it was actual poo poo.) Once I got to the fort, he was pointing to the spot on the floor where he had an accident (#1 only...whew). We went to the bathroom to make sure he was done, and then we changed out the top blanket on the floor.
Grady quickly tired of the movie in the fort and went into the study to dig through his toy box. I could hear him playing around, and then all of a sudden he got really quiet. I said, "Gradybug, whatcha doin?" To which he replied, "Mommy I'm on the potty!" Sure enough, he was sitting on the potty and had filled it up with pee pee!!! He got lots of high fives and got to put 2 stickers on his chart and get his M&Ms.
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| Grady gets a sticker for each time he "Tries" to potty, another one if he "Pee Pees" and another sticker if he "Poo Poos"! |
After that, he wanted to play ball, so we sat in the floor and bounced/rolled a ball back and forth for a while. During that he jumped up and said he needed to potty. I got excited and said let's run to the potty. (So he did...literally run to the potty.) He was almost there and hit the tile in the entry right outside the bathroom and BUSTED it! I felt SO bad. I made sure he was ok, and then he sat on the potty and pee peed again. (This time I gave him 2 oreos because I felt bad that he fell and hurt his arm and leg.)
On to our next activity... we decided to decorate the Christmas tree. Grady was such a big helper!
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| Admiring his work |
For the rest of the afternoon, Grady did so good. We watched another movie (Home) and I hoped he would lay down and take a nap. He started to have a little accident, and stopped and finished in the potty. I took the blankets to the laundry room, and we decided to use a pull-up during nap time. After that, I made him try and use the potty (his pull-up was still dry) and he did! As you can see from his potty chart above, he has been doing a good job of taking himself to the potty. I only made him try 2 of those times, the rest were all him!
With only 2 accidents so far, I think he's done a great job! The day is far from over, and daddy and H&H will be home soon, so we will see how we continue doing.
Tomorrow we are going to Kevin's company Christmas party and get to meet Santa! This is where I will go "off book" from the "experts". We are going to stick a pull-up on him (gasp!) and just go to the potty every 45-60 minutes to let him try to potty. We're just too busy to carve out 3 straight days where we don't have something going on this time of year.
I will give another update of how the rest of today goes and how Day 2 starts out tomorrow. =)
Day 1 hasn't been quite as bad as I expected (but we haven't had to deal with #2 yet....that's the one that will be interesting). Better get back to it for now!
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