The Potty Training Chronicles

I'm laughing out loud at how many of my posts in the past several weeks have revolved around our Potty Training mission. I should have started out calling these posts "The Potty Training Chronicles" and numbered them in parts. I guess if I had done that, I'd be on Part IV now.

Ok anyway...so I am SO proud to say that we had another #2 success yesterday. After 10 (no kidding) frantic "Mommy, I have to go poopy" trips to the potty, he finally felt like he "really" needed to go, and went with no trouble. This time, he earned a Mater (it's a good think they have made like a hundred of these cars!!!).

It has now been (dare I say) almost 5 days since we last had a #2 accident. When it comes to peeing, he does use the pull-up as a crutch sometimes and lets himself have accidents in them occasionally, but we know he can keep himself dry if he has too. Saturday afternoon while we were out running errands, he informed us he needed to go pee-pee. We told him to try and hold it and we'd find a place for him to go. (He literally held it, LOL). After getting stopped at a couple of red traffic lights, driving through a shopping plaza trying to figure out where we would have the most success in finding a potty for him, and having to wait in line to use the restroom, I was SURE we were going to be in need of a new pull-up. But I was so pleasantly surprised when upon pulling down his pants I saw all of his Diego characters still in tact (for those not going through potty training right now, the pull-ups are "smart" and have images on the front of the pull-up that disappear when wet). He then sat on the potty and peed for nearly a minute, I think.

He has also proved that he can go at least through his nap dry, as I forgot one afternoon and put him to bed in his big boy underpants. He made it all the way through his nap, but had an accident because he was stuck in his room (I had gated him into his room...he likes to escape from time to time), and he couldn't get out quick enough to make it to the potty. Surprisingly, this upset him VERY much.

I think that was our last accident in big boy underpants. When playing outsite he will now come tell us if he needs to go (unless he's in a pull-up...then he just goes, I think). And even in the grocery store today he told me he needed to go. I was sure I was going to kick myself for not insisting he put a pull-up on before we left the house. So, I took an extra set of clothes in case. Just as we were heading for the check-out, he let me know he needed to go. I told him to hold it again (and he did) and we made it in time.

This potty training journey began on Monday, April 6 and by that evening, I was so ready to pull the diapers back out and try again later. But, after three weeks of persistence...by golly, I think we might have it (I am definitely knocking on some wood, right now)!! It has definitely been a journey and a process, but I'm so proud of our little guy now!!