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!!!