My darling little son will be 3 in April. We have kinda sorta started the potty training…nothing serious but we get him to pee in the potty before bath (had to make a deal with him to sit on it while I got the water ready…once he heard the water he’d pee every time and he’d get bubbles in his bath!) We then expanded to having him pee in the mornings before we got him dressed too…he was waking up with a dry diaper so I knew that designated “pee time” was easy too! After about 3 weeks consistent of this I thought it MIGHT be time to try to really potty train him.
So this weekend I thought…lets try and see if my child is gifted and if he can be potty trained in a weekend (psshhh I JUST realized that its NOT gonna happen!)…..But I got the potty charts made…stickers bought…potty READY!
THIS was my lovely view for the weekend….so freakin’ adorable!!
(he’s going to kill me when he grows up!)
We hung out at home all day Satirday…wanted to be very close to a potty at all times! So we had a lovely lazy day at home.
…we had such a great first day! No accidents…even napped in undies w/o an accident…was great. BUT we didn’t go #2…so I thought it would be bad once he finally DID do it. He spent the night at my parents…and they reported back that he did great! Even went #2 with MY FATHER (if you know my dad you are probably pretty shocked…I about had a heart attack when Mom told me that!) Was all pretty exciting…I totally thought we had it in the bag…haha geez
Sunday afternoon we went to our friends house for a day in the spa…since it was 90 degrees in March! Love it. Owen told us when he needed to potty…everything was going great! 
Poor Ryry kept getting bloody noses…so we put cotton up there to stop it!
…Until Owen had an accident on Heather’s carpet…I felt horrible! From there I feel like it went downhill. Got home that evening (out of our usual evening routine)…rushed to bed. Owen would NOT let me put a diaper on him for bed. So he woke up this morning SOAKED. He got to Martha’s and wouldn’t pee for her all morning. Then around 11am he had an accident. Once I got him home at 3:30 he SCREAMED not wanting to even sit on the potty and BEGGING for a diaper. So I’m going to hang it up…and give it another shot when I have a FULL week with him during spring break! We are on the right road though. I was frustrated this evening…and Owen could totally sense it…this was our conversation during bathtime
Owen: “Mommy you can’t be sad”
Me: “I’m not sad buddy…why do you think I’m sad?”
Owen: “I don’t know…because I pee’d on your floor”
Me: “Owen I’m not sad…its ok buddy…it was an accident”
Owen: “Ok but I’m really really sorry”
My sensitive little dude.
So good bye Potty Charts…until the end of March when we will meet again!
He sounds like he's almost there! Just keep at it. I've been dealing with potty training for almost a year now. I started with having Kaydin wear pullups during the day(in case of accidents)but had him go potty like they were real underwear. At one point we had a timer set for every 30min-1hour and he had to sit on the potty every time it went off. It just takes them a while to learn what it feels like to have to go potty. Now Kaydin's in underwear all day - even at school - but wears a pullup for nap and night time. I know how frustrating it can be, but it seems like one day it just clicks in their head. And that is a great day =)
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