Potty Training Weekend, Round 2 - Sat. AM

And it begins.....

7:00 am - Up and at it!  It was a no go for the wake up potty time.  Time for breakfast and we will try again later.

7:20 am - Ooops!  We had a dribble of #1, so off we went to bathroom with a change of clothes.

7:50 am - Ooops!  Accident #2 with a #2!  David was playing with his cars when he got a little surprise in his pants.  More time on the toilet, but pretty easy for my first poo cleanup.

8:10 am - False alarm.  David said he wanted to go to the potty so we went and sat on the toilet.  Nothing!  I have decided to go with the naked approach from now on.  I know there is the potential for some pretty heinous cleanups, but I think I can handle it.  Also, this way he better associates what is going on downstairs with himself instead of the "what is this/who did that?" look I have been getting.

9:00 am - Another false alarm, but we are still dry over a hour now.

9:15 am - Woooo hoooo!  We have a poo poo in the potty!  I thought it was another false alarm and just laid in the floor after David got on the potty.  I just relaxed while David babbled about poo poo, pee pee, and potties.  Then all of a sudden his voice changed to higher pitch and I heard the trademark "ker-plunk"!  He was less surprised during this session and was excited to get two M&M's.  Yeaaahhh!

10:00 am - False alarm.  As annoying as these are, it is better than a mess on my floor.  Soooo, I guess I can put up with them.

10:15 am - Yeah, another #2 in the potty!  It was a ghost poo.  You know the ones, when you hear the noise, but little evidence is left otherwise.  (Sorry if that was a tad crude for your tastes.) However, I am 99% sure something happened.   I think he may be starting to understand a little or he likes M&M's more than I thought.

11:15 am - Well the last hour has cleared things up for me.  It is all about the candy.  We have spent most of the time running back and forth to the bathroom.  He wants to get more of the M&M's, but I don't think he has put 2 and 2 together to figure out how got them in the first place.  Oh well, all of this running to the potty means less clean up for me!

11:45 am - We made it to lunch with no accidents, but with no pee or poo in the potty either and he has spent a lot of time on the potty lately. Now we are on the downhill slide to nap time and getting him back into a Pull-up.

12:45 pm - At the buzzer!!!  David has had some pretty serious looks on his face when asking to go to the potty, but nothing was happening.  I figured he was just holding it in and would go when he was ready and sure enough he did.  We were wrapping up for nap time when he asked to go again.  This time we got pee pee in the potty.  David was a little off put by it all, but after I reassured him that everything was O.K. and he received a few M&M's it was all good.  He just continued talking about it until nap time.  Even as I type this I hear him on the monitor telling JoJo that "David pee pee in the potty."

Round 2 is over.  I think I will rest some too.

Kyle

Potty Training Weekend, Round 1 - Friday Evening

3:45 pm - Everything is starting smoothly.  (Calm before the storm?) I changed his dirty diaper and we put on his new Cars underwear.  He was so pumped.  David just kept talking about how he had underpants like Makenzie and Grant from daycare.  We also ceremonially threw all his diaper and diaper accessories into the "trash."  Here's to a wonderful evening and weekend.

4:15 pm - That didn't take long.  We had our first accident, a #1 on the kitchen tile (Easy cleanup!).  That wasn't as traumatizing as I thought it would be, for him or me.  There were a few tears of confusion, but we just went and sat on the toilet just in case there was more.  We're ready to go again!

5:05 pm - We went and spent some time on the toilet.  No pee pee in the potty, but we still have dry pants.

5:40 pm - SUCCESS!!!  David was making a funny face so I asked if he needed to go potty and he said yes.  When we got his pants off his underwear was a little bit wet.  We set on the toilet and a little while later I hear that wonderful tinkling sound.  David was a little surprised by it all, and I quickly gave him a potty treat (M&M's).  He was so excited and kept talking about how he went pee pee like Grant and Makenzie. This is awesome!

7:00 pm - Alright, we made it to bath time with dry pants, but we had an accident in the bathtub.  (Again, easy cleanup!!)

8:00 pm - Bedtime.  Time to put on the Pull-ups and boy is he excited about the Pull-ups.  I guess the kids a daycare are wearing Pull-ups or maybe it is because there are cars all over them.

All in all it was a decent afternoon and evening.  I was grateful for the easy start to the process.  Here's hoping that tomorrow is just as smooth. (HA!)

Kyle

Potty Training Boot Camp

If you have any free time this weekend, spare a thought for me.  We have decided to give potty training a serious effort this weekend.  David has been routinely asking us to change his diaper, sitting on the toilet, and has become even better at getting out of his pants.

All of this has us trying the potty training thing.  The only problem is that Emily will be gone Friday evening and most of Saturday with a speech and debate tournament.  Soooo... it is up to Daddy!  I guess this is payback for all of the times David has gone to Emily to ask for his diaper to be changed.  

Updates to come....

Kyle

Another Beautiful Day

Our little one got to enjoy the beautiful weather again today and spent the afternoon after naptime playing soccer with Daddy, being introduced to the weed-eater, and blowing bubbles.

Oh, and here's a cute picture of our first haircut this year.

-Emily

Fridge Phonics

David's language continually expands as we are learning more and more every day. In fact, some recent additions to our vocabulary include the following:

• Eoghan (sounds like "Owen")--up until this last week, David called our youngest dog "O-ca"; however, as of this week, "Oca" is now officially "Eoghan."
  
• "Go away" and an elongated "Hey!"--These are probably lovely daycare phrases because Kyle and I don't use these. Now, whenever he doesn't get his way or like what's happening, he attempts to use these special new ones. :)
• "Groceries"--When Kyle and I leave to go somewhere in the car, David exclaims, "Daddy at donut" or "Mama at work" or "Daddy at church." He also uses these when he gets on his own tricycle and rides around the house. As of this week, he's added a new location to his destination list: "Groceries."

In addition to his new phrases, he's slowly learning his ABC's, numbers, and colors. He's also learning how to put on his own clothes and shoes.

Below is a picture of him with his new fridge "computer" to learn his letters. Notice the linear design of our little organized one.

-Emily