Monday, September 26, 2011
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Potty Training - 11 Day Update
Training has continued to go great overall.
For some strange reason Josh has stopped just sitting on the potty on his own. So a couple hours will go by and I'll take him to the potty because it seems like he should need to go. And sure enough he does. I guess the good news is that he is successfully holding it for pretty good stretches.
The only accidents we continue to have are related to poop. It's like he doesn't understand the need to poop or maybe he's not comfortable telling us. Not really sure. Typically he will have peed in his shorts a little and then fusses to go poop. There have also just been some flat out accidents with poop ending up in undesirable places.
Where we are today is still having him go bare-bottomed as much as possible. And just shorts if we go out. He did wear a diaper for some church related stuff because other people were watching him and I didn't want to put that burden on them.
He does seem to be getting better about communicating the need to go potty when in situations such as sitting in a lap or high chair. He still gives a soft little "poop" and off we go.
Today had a truly amazing moment. I took him to work to have lunch with my girlfriends. I had a potty in the car just in case and really didn't know what to expect. After touring the building a little bit he started to get fussy and I wondered if he needed to go potty. So we made our way to the big-people bathroom and I sat him down. Josh seemed a little freaked out by that and just wanted to hug me. So I didn't push the issue.
About 45 minutes later while we were all eating I heard his "poop" and away we went. I took him to the same potty and we sat there a long time. There was a little trickle and then nothing. But when I tried to get him off the potty, he kept saying "poop". So we stayed. My patience paid off because sure enough he went poop! Then a lotta pee! I was amazed. I couldn't believe he actually did this on the first day trying. But why do I keep getting surprised?
So we had our little celebration, but the best was when we rejoined the girls and he got huge cheers from all them. What fun!
For some strange reason Josh has stopped just sitting on the potty on his own. So a couple hours will go by and I'll take him to the potty because it seems like he should need to go. And sure enough he does. I guess the good news is that he is successfully holding it for pretty good stretches.
The only accidents we continue to have are related to poop. It's like he doesn't understand the need to poop or maybe he's not comfortable telling us. Not really sure. Typically he will have peed in his shorts a little and then fusses to go poop. There have also just been some flat out accidents with poop ending up in undesirable places.
Where we are today is still having him go bare-bottomed as much as possible. And just shorts if we go out. He did wear a diaper for some church related stuff because other people were watching him and I didn't want to put that burden on them.
He does seem to be getting better about communicating the need to go potty when in situations such as sitting in a lap or high chair. He still gives a soft little "poop" and off we go.
Today had a truly amazing moment. I took him to work to have lunch with my girlfriends. I had a potty in the car just in case and really didn't know what to expect. After touring the building a little bit he started to get fussy and I wondered if he needed to go potty. So we made our way to the big-people bathroom and I sat him down. Josh seemed a little freaked out by that and just wanted to hug me. So I didn't push the issue.
About 45 minutes later while we were all eating I heard his "poop" and away we went. I took him to the same potty and we sat there a long time. There was a little trickle and then nothing. But when I tried to get him off the potty, he kept saying "poop". So we stayed. My patience paid off because sure enough he went poop! Then a lotta pee! I was amazed. I couldn't believe he actually did this on the first day trying. But why do I keep getting surprised?
So we had our little celebration, but the best was when we rejoined the girls and he got huge cheers from all them. What fun!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Potty Training Boot Camp - Day 3
Day three was smooth as well. We had some weird weather so decided not to attempt a picnic. So unfortunately our outings for the day were just boring errands.
The funny thing was that I think all three of us were getting cabin fever. It's hard to stick around the house this much.
In the afternoon we left shorts on Josh for a little bit to start getting him used to that feeling and needing to specifically tell us when he needs to go potty. It's great that he does it all by himself when bare-bottomed, but he needs to learn to have us help him when dressed.
No accidents all day, so still feeling really good about it all.
The funny thing was that I think all three of us were getting cabin fever. It's hard to stick around the house this much.
In the afternoon we left shorts on Josh for a little bit to start getting him used to that feeling and needing to specifically tell us when he needs to go potty. It's great that he does it all by himself when bare-bottomed, but he needs to learn to have us help him when dressed.
No accidents all day, so still feeling really good about it all.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Potty Training Boot Camp - Day 2
Not a whole lot to report because the day went so well. Josh never told us he needed to go potty because he would just go sit down when he needed to. This makes me a little concerned about when we do start putting pants on him, but I know it's just a matter of learning that next phase.
We did our outing this afternoon to Starbucks. We just put shorts on Josh with no diaper. He stayed dry the whole time. There was a little concern on the way back though. Josh wanted to walk so it was slow going heading home. About one-third of the way back Josh stopped walking and said "pee-pee". Oh, great. What do we do now? I scooped him up to try to walk home faster but he wanted to walk. I reminded him that he needed to try to stay dry. Amazingly we made it home without any hint of an incident.
It was a little while after we got home before he did go potty, so I'm not really sure he had to go when he said so on the walk. But at least he communicated it.
Tomorrow we're supposed to do two outings. It's a little funny to wait for him to go pee so that we can scoop him up to head out. We're hoping the morning outing can be a picnic lunch. Not sure what the afternoon will be.
We did our outing this afternoon to Starbucks. We just put shorts on Josh with no diaper. He stayed dry the whole time. There was a little concern on the way back though. Josh wanted to walk so it was slow going heading home. About one-third of the way back Josh stopped walking and said "pee-pee". Oh, great. What do we do now? I scooped him up to try to walk home faster but he wanted to walk. I reminded him that he needed to try to stay dry. Amazingly we made it home without any hint of an incident.
It was a little while after we got home before he did go potty, so I'm not really sure he had to go when he said so on the walk. But at least he communicated it.
Tomorrow we're supposed to do two outings. It's a little funny to wait for him to go pee so that we can scoop him up to head out. We're hoping the morning outing can be a picnic lunch. Not sure what the afternoon will be.
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