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.