3 Day Potty Training Diary

Potty Training -Day 1
Friday

Good morning! As soon as he woke up, it was time to say goodbye to the diaper.  I had him pick out his underwear.  I took off the diaper and he threw it away.  No more diapers, you're a big boy now.  He said good bye.  Here we go! So we hung out in the house all day with no diaper and no distractions.  My sole focus was to pay attention to him and get him to the potty if he needed to go.    I reminded him to keep his underwear dry and to tell me if he had to use the potty. I did this every few minutes. We had a few accidents in the morning.  We didn’t quite make it to the potty on time.  That’s ok, but at least he was trying.  I had a few successful attempts.  He told me he had to go pee and we ran to the potty.  Over and over all day.

The major challenge came at nap time.  He started freaking out.  He didn’t say he wanted his diaper back, but he did say he didn’t want underwear on.  It took a few bribes before we could get him in his crib with underwear. Good news he did use the potty before sleeping so he made it thru nap time dry.

Then we had a few success and a few misses.  Not too bad for something I had been dreading for so long.  The hard part was getting him to sleep. It took about an hour longer than normal. He still wasn’t used to wearing underwear and since we were potty training, I had to give in and go back into his room everytime he called.  This happened about 5-6 times, but finally he went to sleep.  Will he make it through the night? Seems like an awful long time.  So for the first night we helped him along by going in at about 5 am   (1 1/2  hour earlier than usual) as soon as I heard him stirring.     We put him on the potty and he peed and then went back to sleep.  I was amazed.

Potty Training Day 2
Saturday

The day went  well.  Since it's the weekend I enlisted my husbands help. Not as many accidents, but he had one poop accident -not so fun!  We just continued to remind him all day to tell us when he had to use the potty and as soon as he did-showered him with praise.  I called my mom, we cheered, we danced, we hugged, gave stickers.  Over and over all day long.   Its was all pee and poop all day long.  It seemed to be working, but it was hard to keep him focused.  

Potty Training Day 3

He’s doing so well.  He seems to be getting it.  But we need to get out of the house, we're going stir crazy. Tomorrow is the real test!