Back on the potty training train.

After the poop on the floor at daycare and pee on the floor here we realized we needed a new approach. So as I mentioned before, we now ask him if he needs to go if he starts doing "the potty dance" or we are just asking him to try. We also decided to try to good ol' potty chart system. And well we have some success! It isn't anything fancy at all. Antonio helped me pick the color of paper and I made a chart. Every time he goes pee he puts a sticker on the "pee" row and after 15 stickers he gets a car (or anything else he wants for the Dollar store) and after 5 poop's he gets the same thing.

Yesterday we put a pull - up on him twice. Once to go to the store and once to go to my Aunts for a birthday party for my cousin and her husband. When we got home from the store the pull-up was completely dry! I had him go pee right before we put it on and then as soon as we got home I had him take it off and try to pee. Turns out it worked great! When we went to my Aunt's I brought pull-ups with us (and a treat just in case) because I assumed he would not use the potty there. Good thing I had brought treats because he went pee THREE times there. He didn't ask or tell us but every time we noticed him doing "the potty dance" we asked him and and he willingly went! I was beyond surprised and proud of him; especially since he is VERY unfamiliar with her house. He rarely goes potty at daycare and has NEVER gone anywhere else. Before we left we even took him in to try and sure enough he went! So his pull-up was dry the WHOLE time at my Aunts, which was about 3.5 hours! So all day yesterday he went in his potty, no accidents! We were/are so proud of him!

To our surprise we got to 15 fast and since he had reached 15 stickers last night, as promised, we went to buy him a car. He even got to pick it out himself! He was so excited about it. I think he understands why he got it but I am not 100% sure. Sure enough when we got home his pull-up was completely dry again! So today we made a new potty chart and it already has 3 pee stickers and 1 poop sticker!! I made it with 2 rows for pee since it seems we will go through pee's stickers a lot faster than poop (duh). I am hoping the awesome day he had yesterday carries over today and into the week. I also really hope he goes potty at daycare too; fingers crossed.


***Update. As of tonight at bedtime Antonio has had NO accidents all weekend AND his pull-up (when worn) has always been dry! Also, when he was in the bathtub tonight he asked to get out because he had to go pee. He said he didn't want to go in the tub; so he got out and pee'd in the potty! :) We are half way to another car/toy already. : D  I am not sure if it's the potty chart or the rough couple "potty days" he had but whatever it is/was helped!!

Potty Training...ugh

Yup...poop and pee again....

So we have had a few bumps in the road this week. Up until this week Antonio has been near perfect...at home. He poops and pee's in the potty when he needs to like a pro. Daycare is a whole other story but he is (was) getting better. He's going pee once or twice in the potty there; which is progress. :) Away from home he has this stubbornness with the potty.

This week, however, has been a whole different story. Sunday he peed in his undies. Tuesday, he peed on the floor before getting into his bath at home. Today he pooped (yes pooped) on the floor at daycare, granted it was in the bathroom while trying to go pee but STILL! Poor Rosemary, the daycare lady, had to check on another kid for a second and when she came back to check on how Antonio was doing, well he had a surprise for her. : /  Albert says she didn't seem upset by it at all when she told him about it. Then when Albert and Antonio got home they took off his pull-up and he asked Antonio if he had to pee and he said no. Then sure enough...he peed in his undies...AGAIN. Ugh.

Rosemary had a long talk with Antonio about pooping on the floor and then Albert and Antonio had a long talk about going pee on the floor. We are going back to "making" him go every so often instead of letting him just go when he thinks he has to go like we were. Now we are going to try enforcing the "trying" to go. Prior to this he was getting so good that he would go on his own free will and only maybe had 3 accidents in 3 weeks! :)

When I got home today one of the first things he said to me was, "Mama I pooped on the floor." He seemed very bummed and sad about it but I couldn't imagine he really did but sure enough. So he knows it was wrong, or at least now he does. The rest of the night he went potty by himself or every time we went in to try. I had been feeling so good (and proud) about it, especially because he was getting better at daycare! Then this week....ugh. Here's to hoping this week is just a little bump and we quickly get back on track.

Potty Training, take 1.

Again....all about poop and pee so turn away if you don't want/care to read about it....

COMPLETE BUST. Ugh. Yeah. Our plan was to take this past 3-day weekend, stay home and focus on potty training. I mean, he was doing AWESOME at home after daycare. 90% of the time he was going pee in his potty, by himself, without us having to use a timer or anything!! He would just go. I thought, "Great! All we have to do is get him to do that at daycare". Not that I thought it was going to be easy but I sure hoped it would be.

After his haircut Saturday morning we went straight home, took his pull-up off and just put on underwear; and he was happy about that! I'd say he went about 60% of the time in his potty but pooped TWICE in his underwear. Yuck. He was so good at going poop in the potty I thought we were good with that. : /  After the first time when he stood at his potty, underwear down and nothing happened, then all of a sudden there was poop. We thought maybe he knew something was happening but couldn't tell the difference. So Sunday we hoped for better.

Sunday we got up took the diaper off and just had underwear on to his request, again.  He was a bit better, maybe 80% on the potty! And yes, 1 poop at his potty standing up, again...silver lining here is that every time it was solid so VERY easy clean up! :)  A couple times he peed while pulling his underwear down, but I still count that as "in the potty". Monday HAD to be better.

Today, Antonio and I got up, and did underwear only. His aim was TERRIBLE today... The other days his aim was perfect, like he had been doing it for forever; today it was like I would've expected from the beginning. On the towel, floor, tiny bit on the wall and barely any in the potty. The cute part was he KNEW he was missing. While peeing he'd say..."oof....miss." Needless to say I mopped the floors AGAIN this afternoon. His aim wasn't even the worst part. I'd say pee went int he potty maybe only 25% of the time (happily no poop today!). After his nap he didn't want his underwear and asked to wear a pull-up. I was frustrated but told him if he needed to go all he had to do was pull them down. The first pee, he ran over to his potty, pulled them down and peed. I thought to myself, well maybe this isn't so bad...that was the last pee in the putty for the day. Sigh....  In fact he didn't even want his underwear on over his pull-up like he's been wanting to do. Double sigh...

So yeah, maybe he knew he wasn't doing so well and got discouraged and thats why he wanted to have his pull-ups on. Who knows.  Also, he never tells us when he needs to go, he just goes in the potty (or not). We noticed when playing outside, running around etc, or even inside when "playing hard" he tended to have more "accidents". Clearly we have a LONG way to go. I just so wished we would have been more successful this weekend. We gave up a trip to the lake, going to the farmers market etc to stay home. Oh well. As I've read, he won't go to Jr. High in pull-ups so we will be trained eventually. I think "my" reward for him being PT'd will be getting my carpets steamed cleaned. ;)  So please pray to the potty training God's for a quick(er) and easy(er) success! Stay tuned...or not.