Once upon a potty

Warning! If you dont want to hear about potty traing details, skip to the last paragraph.

So, I decided to get Alex into undies for good. His little cousin Jonas is visiting and everyone is talking about Jonas getting potty trained and wearing big boy undies. Alex is finally wanting to wear undies again like Zaki and Jonas.

Today was day one of our second attempt (originally trained in January) and it started out pretty well as I expected. We had special treats for him to eat after going in the potty. I had a variety as he gets bored easily with one or two of the same repeated often. He drank juice and peed in the potty that was set up in the living room. Success. Though peeing was not his problem the first time around either.

After being bare bottomed for a good few hours, he asked for undies. My little man is modest and likes being clothed. I let him choose his undies. He wanted Spiderman. He was now a big boy in his eyes. He did very well continuing to pee in the potty when needed, but I soon smelled a problem. He had begun to poop in his beloved Spiderman undies. I was disappointed and let him know it. I then told him that he had pooped in his undies and so I now had to throw them away. He watched me toss them in the trash. The light clicked on. He got it.

I did not let him put undies back on until after nap. He chose a blue paire with sports balls on them. He told me he needed to potty and sat on it. He was there for a good while. Twice he asked to get up and I told him he could but all pee pee and poo poo needed to go in the potty, so he stayed seated. Not too long after that, he had a double hitter! We were both so proud. His undies were clean and he was able to continue wearing them until bedtime. All day he kept telling me he had big boy undies like Zaki and Jonas. He was a big boy, too.

Tomorrow we will venture out to spend a little play time with the cousins and see how it all goes. I will be driving Patrick to and from work in order to get the car, but I think Alex will do fine. I will be using a timer to help us both not get distracted. One day locked in he house is all I can do. Ready or not, here we come!