Potty Training Day 8

Woke up dry again and made it all the way to school without going to the potty. The kid is a camel or something. No accidents at school. He still won't let either of us come in the bathroom with him and is luckily not being too messy. Of course the challenge is, it is not like he knows how to wipe, so then you have to chase him down after the fact. Oh well.... He is still very excited about the "plop" sound and giggles which is pretty funny to hear from the next room.

Potty Training Day 7

I don't know when it is going to go down hill, but still on the up and up here. No accidents at school. Had to stop twice on the way home for false alarms, but I think it was so cold and windy he wasn't willing to try to pee. Made it home without a problem.

He continues to insist on going completely alone and it took 4 trips at bedtime with pooping little tiny terds each time, but he did it totally alone and was successful. Of course it works as a great stalling tactic too.

I'm not sure when we'll venture into nighttime undies, but he has been dry every morning this week I believe. I'm not quite ready for that yet.

Potty Trainin Day 6

We picked Gavin up from Allen's parents in the morning and he was wearing pull-ups, but had not had an accident in them. He has 100% decided to pee standing up which is definitely messier; oh well. He tries really hard to aim appropriately, but just has a hard time.

Made one stop on the way home because he thought he had to poop. I wasn't quite sure how were were going to manage that outside, but we were going to try. Luckily it was just a toot and we peed on a mulch hill.

Woke up dry from his nap, no accidents during the day. We went to a friend of mine's 30th (or 1st anniversary of her 29th) birthday party. Our first outing while potty training. No accidents and he actually insisted on going to the bathroom completely without me; wouldn't even let me in the room. We had several trips withing about 10 minutes, but was successful every time. The first one he stood on the floor and definitely had difficulty with aiming since he is so short (only a minor mess). The second time I tipped over the trashcan to stand on. Then when he went on his own, he tipped the trashcan himself and actually peed and pooped all by himself. I'm not quite sure how he managed to do it since the seat was up and he must have balanced on it to keep from falling in. Either way, it worked.

Stopped on the way home to pee on a tree in the dark. Another successful day.

Potty Training Day 5

Another good day. No accidents. We were going to Allen's 10 year high school reunion, so Allen's parents were going to keep Gavin. I felt a little guilty having grandparents watch a little boy on day 5 of potty training, but luckily it has been going very well. We took 5 extra pairs of underwear/pants and hoped for the best. Apparently things went very well. They went out and bought pull-ups and a potty seat (which Gavin got to pick out-Sesame Street).

Potty Training Day 4

Today was the most successful yet. No accidents at school and only one "false alarm" runs to the potty. I convinced him to sit on the potty while I read him a book so that he would stay on the potty longer in hopes of preventing 5 partial poops. I know he likes standing to pee at school on th miniature potty, so we also tried standing on a stool to pee, but that was pretty messy. Going to go back to sitting on the potty at home for a while.

Potty Training Day 3

Another successful day. Woke up dry, made it to school without peeing and no accidents during the day. Once we were home, it was definitely alittle more interesting, but he honestly did a fantastic job.

We were watching videos on youtube when he jumped up and said he had to poop. Ran to the bathroom and he said it wasn't ready yet so we went back. Jumped up again; still not ready. Third times a charm and we successfully pooped and peed on the potty (very excited about the splashing...what a true boy).

Then we played with trains upstairs and we again jumped up and ran to the potty. We almost made it, just alittle terd in the undies but damn it he tried really hard. Back to playing with trains when he looked down and said, Oops....peed on the floor. Poor kid, can't blame him he's always been able to just pee whenever he wanted and now all of a sudden can't.

Clean undies and immediate ran to the potty again....didn't make it-pooped. So within 1-2 hours we went through 3 pairs of underwear and 5/6 trips to the potty. I wish I could have just convinced him to sit there for a while the first time and we probably would have gotten it all out at once, but at soon as alittle poop came out he wanted to jump down because he was done and go play. Definitely a change from a diaper were he could take 20 minutes to be done. Oh well....

We couldn't ask for it to be going any more smoothly. I kind of feel like I am cheating!

Potty Training Day 1 and 2

Well....we have officially begun potty training (YIKES!!). So far it is actually going much better than I had ever anticipated. I would not be surpised if it goes well for a couple of weeks and then falls apart though.

Background: He has actually be sitting on the potty at night before bedtime for several months and successfully peeing on the potty but has shown no interest otherwise. His cousins (3 years old) have completed potty training and he has seen them do fun things like pee on trees and I think that is part of the reason he has been interested recently. So, on Sunday I looked outside while at my parents house only to see Gavin at the back of the yard, pants around his ankles and diaper 10 feet away. When I asked what he was doing he told me he was pee on a tree and didn't want a diaper back on. The next day (monday) I approached daycare to see what they do during the day for potty training and I let them know we were going to start. On the way home we stopped by Target and Gavin got to pick out lots of fun undies with Cars, Nemo, Spider-man...

We put on undies in the car on the way home and had a very successful evening. At night he is still wearing a diaper.

Day 1:

Woke up (dry diaper), put on undies but would not sit on the potty because his "pee was not ready yet". I figured this was not going to end well because we eventually had to get in my car and head to school. I think I asked him every 5 minutes if he had to pee and finally he said yes, so we stopped on the side of the road and peed on a fence. That was a lot of fun, but at least he did not pee in my car.

He did very well at daycare (the took him to the potty every hour) until shift change at about 5pm and he went 2 hours without being taken and had an accident (I'm not sure the 2nd shift people even knew we had really started). I was pretty impressed; one accident on the first day.

Once home he did very well, but got sucked into a movie and peed on the floor (clearly going to have to pay attention when watching movies). Otherwise no accidents.

Day 2:
Woke up dry, wanted undies but not to sit on the potty, hid behind the chair and peed. When ask why, he said he didn't want to sit on the potty. After that, we made it to school successfully. NO ACCIDENTS at school!! I was very impressed. No accidents once home either.

Wish us luck! :)

A Day at the Farm

Gavin and a wonderful day with his cousins as his great-grand parent's farm. He got to drive a combine down the driveway, run in the corn field, sit on tractors, and the best part....play with 5 week old border collie puppies. I'm not sure the day can get any better for a 2 1/2 year old.