Potty Training - Days 2, 3, and 4

Well friends.

This potty training is no joke!

 It is hard work but hopefully in a few months we will be looking back and laughing. 

Right?!?!

I'm glad my little blog/journal is helping some of you with your future potty training adventures and I truly do appreciate your comments, advice, and support! Truly!!

Let me look back to my notes.

Yes, I keep my notepad and pen next to me at all times to track times/success/failures.

You can't take the teacher out of the girl.

Wednesday, Day 2

We started the training at 7:00 am and Reagan was getting into the groove of "feeling" like he had to go and would go sit on the froggy potty. Yay! I needed to run to the library real quick at 9:00 am so I put him into his first pull-up.  At the library he said he needed to try, so in we went to the public bathroom.  It was a no go, but I was proud of him for trying.  My quick trip turned into 40 minutes looking at videos and books (my bad) . As we were walking out to the car he froze, grabbed his pull-up, and said "No! Me get a sad face!" I felt so bad. But at least he was registering.  I told him I was proud of him and that this time it was kind of my fault. 

We headed back home and took off the pull-up. Back to our naked party. At 10:50 he started hurrying to the frog potty and started to pee on the floor. He did continue in the potty though- yay! 

Lunch, one more pee pee in the potty and then nap (diaper).

He went a couple of more times in the potty that night before bed. 

All in all, a good day 2 (I think at least!)

Thursday, Day 3

Reagan slept in a little later this morning and we didn't get started until 8:00. I kept asking him if he needed to go and the answer was always "no". My phone timer went off every 45 minutes and I would have him try to use the frog toilet and / or the big toilet and every time it was with no success. It was finally 11:15 and he still had not gone. No accident but no potty. I thought this was very weird. I had already gone 6 times by now. Ha ha. Not joking.

So I decided he and I needed a distraction from all this potty training. So we got in our suits and went swimming. The second we put our feet in the water he peed in his swim diaper. Figures! After swimming we had lunch and took a nap.  After the nap he did go pee pee in the frog potty one time.  And nothing more until bed.  Does this mean he is just getting better at holding it? I was so worried he was getting a bladder infection or something!

Thursday night I went to a wine bar with friends and it was a nice distraction for me. I'm not going to lie- we did talk about potty training a little bit, but mostly gossiped and talked reality TV. Just what this mama needed. The most random part of the night was meeting two "matchmakers". We grilled them about their business. I think that would be the coolest job.

Friday, Day 4

Today we got up and went to the movies.  I bought the kids summer movie package and I am pretty excited about it.  We go once a week to the a special kids showing. It was 7 dollars a ticket (total) for like 12 movies or something! Anyways. Today was Happy Feet 2. Neither Reagan or I had seen it and we really liked it.

I put Reagan in a pull-up and we talked about how we don't want Lightening McQueen to get wet. Reagan told me 4 times during the movie that he needed to go potty. (Sorry to everyone around us! I've never been up and down in a movie so much! Oh well, the place was full of kids so I hope the parents understood.) Each time was a no-go and I think he thought going into the big potty was a fun game.  I suppose I should be happy he was trying, but come on kid- just let it out! 

After the movie we were driving home and he yelled "Oh no- me go pee!" When we got home I immediately had him sit on the potty and he peed. I do think he started in the car but he was able to cut himself off. 

The rest of the day was pretty standard- lunch, pool, nap, pee pee in potty.

Tonight we went to our friend Sarah's house and he started to poo in his pull-up.  Mid poo we sat on the toilet and he finished there. 

Long story short.... we're getting there.  

These intensive 3 days have not completely potty trained him but I think it has set a good foundation. He is going less frequently and is able to hold it until a potty.  I anticipate more accidents but hopefully less than now that we had potty boot-camp. We are not even going to try with naps/bedtime until he and I are more confident during the day. While he is around the house we will do big boy underwear but will probably do pull-ups when we leave the house for awhile. I'm not going to journal his daily progress anymore but I will keep you posted on how it is going! Thanks for reading!! 

Potty Training Day 1

FYI if you aren't a family member or a mommy, this might be TMI! 

Since the time I was pregnant with Reagan, I have been terrified of the thought of potty training. I'm not joking. Probably more scared of this than I was of labor/birth.

Reagan is 3 years old and 2 months. I know I have been putting it off. I mean- I did have some pretty legit reasons (teaching schedule limits my time, he wasn't recognizing signs, etc.) But I think he is finally ready.

I found a couple of potty training blogs through Pinterest that show an intensive 3 day method for potty training.  Basically you stay home for 3 days and Reagan is naked for most of it. You set the timer and try throughout the day. Since this is my first week of summer vacay, and surprisingly a free week, I decided this would be a good week to start. So you know me. I dove right in, head first.

Preparations:

This weekend I ran to Target and spent a pretty penny on our potty training supplies. Nick was a little annoyed, but I told him it would be worth it when Reagan was out of diapers. Please Lord don't prove me wrong!

I made two buckets. Our "Poo Poo Bucket" is full of new books, DVDs, and toys.  Our "Pee Pee Bucket" is full of candy and stickers. Pretty self-explanatory, but when Reagan goes poo in the potty he chooses and item , etc.

I also stocked up on little boy underwear covered in his favorite characters.

I got 2 potty DVDs which we have watched multiple times today.

And I stocked up on salty snacks and sugary drinks. The blogs suggested the salty snacks because they make you thirsty, thus you drink more, thus you pee more. Makes sense to me.  

You can also see the cleaning stuff was out and ready as were the Cars Pull-Ups (Probably will save these for outings after our 3rd day home).

 I made this little potty chart.

And a call list to have people help celebrate with us.

The Day:

We started the potty training at 8:00 am. We read some potty books

and then got naked. I started by setting the timer for ever 15 minutes, then moved it to 20 and later 30. We would "try" to go on the big toilet in his bathroom every time the timer went off. I was pretty frustrated because he pretty much just sat there with no pee/poo. Reagan snacked, drank, and watched movies until 10:00.  

Then came accident #1. We were pulling out art supplies and all of a sudden there was pee everywhere.  I don't think he realized he had peed. He said, "Oops. Me spilled". I was thanking my lucky stars we have tile/wood and not an inch of carpet in our house. It made clean up a breeze.

The accident did make him a little scared though.  He insisted on sitting on his small frog toilet in the living room for an hour. He wanted to read on it, eat on it, play on it, etc.  He kept saying "Me sit here so no pee or poo on floor". I felt so bad. 

But the good news was he peed a little and pooed a little while sitting there. Hallelujah! 

During nap time I put him back in a diaper. The blogs I read discouraged this but I am sooo not dealing with wet sheets/mattresses etc. right now. Reagan slept for 3 hours and when he woke up his diaper was full of pee/poo. Poor guy had probably been holding it in.

After nap things really started to get moving. 

He peed 2x in the little froggy toilet and we celebrated big time!

He was so excited to make his phone calls and choose his prizes.

As we sat down for dinner, he had accident #2.

So then we were back to sitting on the toilet non stop. Yep. He has been sitting on his frog toilet eating. No big deal.

As I write this- another pee pee. Success.

So today's total- 4 pees, 1 poo, and 2 accidents.

This is exhausting and boring all at the same time.

Any tips or words of wisdom out there?

XXOO