Potty Training Day 9

Another successful day. Today he was doing a combination of stalling so he didn't have to lay in bed and trying to poop (it was hard for me to tell which). Poor little guy pushed till he was red in the face, but was very proud when he was successful. Of course, as soon as he layed in bed he popped up and said he had a giant poop that he had to get out. So, back we go; me waiting in the bedroom and him in the bathroom door shut by himself-scary. When finished, he was very proud ran to the top of the stairs and told Allen that he had one giant poop and one tiny terd! Very exciting.

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!