Potty Training

*disclaimer.
If you do not want to read about Antonio's pooping and peeing; stop reading. That is exactly what this post is about.


So up until this weekend we have been VERY casual with the potty training. For awhile he was pooping on the potty somewhat regularly. We would watch for signs, then ask him if he had to poop and usually he would say yes. Then we would read his "potty book" and usually by the end of it he would have pooped! Rarely would he actually tell us he had to. We were using the treat system so sometimes he would sit on the potty not go and then ask for a treat anyway. Good try kid! :)  Albert started getting really frustrated when he would go in his diaper, Antonio not Albert (haha), and not tell us or tell us he didn't have to go when he really did. So Albert wanted to try the "no diaper, no pants, bottomless" route this weekend. Just to see what he would do, again, Antonio not Albert. Turns out it is working to our surprise. Yesterday he would pee a little or sometimes a lot before realizing he was going then run over to his little potty and try to finish. To my surprise he knew just what to do. He stood there, knees bent a little and peed! He even knew to aim! Clearly he has been watching all the bigger boys at daycare! His aim is pretty good too! So today again we are bottomless and he has peed in his potty all by himself BEFORE peeing on anything! I m beyond impressed! Granted he has eaten a TON of M&M's in the past couple days! :)

The HUGE bummer is that we never imagined he would do so well and so he has to go back to daycare tomorrow, and the rest of the week. Which in turns means diapers/pull-ups. I am pretty sure that will damage any progress we have done this week which makes me SO MAD!!!!!  I know that he isn't/won't be potty trained in two days but I bet if we had the week we *might* be. In know, wishful thinking but he is doing so good today that I just wonder. We will try again next weekend for the 3-day weekend and hopefully pick up where we leave off. Daycare is closed Friday and my Mom is watching him but she doesn't want to take the ferry over on the Friday of a 3-day weekend, can't lame her but 4 days would been AWESOME!

Wish us luck next weekend! It has been great not having to change a diaper all weekend! He has not pooped at all this weekend so we will see what happens with that! It would save us so much money not having to buy diapers AND having the price goes down at daycare! Besides, he seems so proud of himself when he does pee in the potty! I am so proud of him too! I am hoping going back to daycare does not mess everything up or confuse him. I know there is a big chance it will, which makes me feel badly. Please send us successful P. T. vibes this week and next weekend!!!

The Great Wolf Lodge.

This weekend my Mom, Antonio and I as well as one of my oldest friends, Erin and her Mom, Liz who is one of my Mom's best friends and little boy Patrick, who is 23 months (we left the husbands at home!) went to the Great Wolf Lodge. I had heard from numerous people how great it was. I was a bit hesitant about how "great" it would be for Antonio being so young but IT WAS!!!  He had a BLAST! They had a great area for toddlers up to maybe 7 year olds. They even had 2 little water slides for them! We all shared a suite that have a "living" area as well as two bedrooms so we had our privacy! It worked out perfectly. At night we put both boys down and were able to stay up and chat until past 11pm! It was great! Happily they have a Starbucks in the lobby! The water park was impressive! Like I said they had an area designated for younger kids but also had a wave pool that generated waves similar to the ocean, an actual pool and then of course HUGE water slides for the bigger kids and adults. Sadly, all I can say is that the big slides looked really fun!

This is the wave pool area (stairs in the background to up to the BIG watersides!) 

This is the younger kids area.

As some of you may know Antonio has no real fear of water but strongly dislikes water in his face. Whether it be when washing his hair in the bath or getting splashed in the pool; he just does NOT like it! So as soon as we got changed into our suits and went to check out the water park. I worried about how much he'd like it; there was water coming and going everywhere. From the side, from above and even from below. After maybe 5 sec he got splashed, stopped, went to turn around to leave and I picked him up to go explore more water. He got better and better with water in his face. In fact he fell in love with a water slide where almost every time he went down he would get water in his face at the bottom. He quickly learned to cope and LOVE it! I was so proud!

This place really was a blast and is set up for the young and old kids! They had scavenger hunts, story time, an arcade and even a "Cub Club" which was set up for smaller kids to play and do some crafts. Antonio got to choose at breakfast if he wanted to go back to the water slide or play at the Cub Club; he chose the water slide! So we never got to check out the Cub Club but Erin took Patrick there and seemed to really like it.  I think kids younger than Patrick probably would not have enjoyed it as much; I think 2 is right on the edge of the younger age, depending on the kid. Patrick did had a lot of fun Saturday afternoon when we first got there checking out everything and kept talking about swimming the next morning.  I think you really need a full day to be able to see and do everything. I think I would maybe go for two nights so you have at least one full day to do everything! I already can't wait to go back and take Albert! It is pretty expensive but looks like if you go in their off season it isn't *to* bad considering you never really have to leave! All in all, it was a fun time for the kids and us girls as well! If you are considering going; go, you will have a blast! :)

**And within 15m of being home he pooped on the potty!!!!! A good weekend for sure! Until tomorrow morning when there isn't enough coffee to get me going! ;)