WHEW!!!! No one warned me about this!!! Beside the fact that I am exhausted, let me say I have an amazing son!! So Eric left town today for the week and my mom came to spend a few days so I thought, well, maybe since I will have an extra hand I will see if I can get Caleb potty trained! Keep in mind, he has wanted NOTHING to do with it! I kept telling him when he turned three that big boys had to go on the potty and he would say ok, then he turned 3 and I would ask him how old he was and he would say 2 because he did not want to potty like a big boy! He said diapers are for boys and the potty is for babies!! (yes you read that right) So yesterday mom and I made the trip to target to stock up on potty prizes!! I searched and searched and finally walked away feeling like I had picked a few great things to get him interested. We got home and set it all up in the bathroom in a treasure box and when he woke up from his nap we brought him down and showed him what he had to look forward to on Sunday (today) when the fun would begin! He was excited and of course wanted to touch all the different prizes! So Sunday morning comes . . . Eric leaves for the airport and we are off!! At first he was totally against it then as you can see above I found the perfect outfit for the day!! (He will never forgive me for this one) He likes the grinch and Eric had a fraternity shirt with the grinch on it so we tied that up and since he did not want big boy underpants on I found a pair of diaper covers that look like a duck well, that was it he could not wait to put those on. So we were off . . .
Our mission started around 10 a.m.! Can I just say the only accident he had was the first tee tee of the day and he had the accident in front of the bathroom door while trying so hard to get the door open (we have to keep the door closed because Parker loves to splash in the toliet water). AMAZING!!! By the end of the day he would walk away from a toy or tell me to pause his movie because he had to go potty!!!! He struggled a little with the idea of pooping on the potty but yet again by the end of the night had gone on the potty!! He was so proud of himself he kept chasing Parker around the house trying to tell him about it and Parker would not stop and listen and cheer him on!! I can't believe it!! I am so proud of him! I know that I will have many days ahead with accidents but for the first day he really amazed me!! I did not have to clean pee or poop off my floor today!!! YEAH!!!!
I can honestly say this was one of my biggest fears as a mom so it feels good to have day one of this behind me!!! Thanks to my mom for all her help and encouragment today!!! There is no telling what Parker would have been into if I did not have her help!
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I'm glad you are the pioneer! We are going to tackle pottytraining in about 3 weeks (during spring break - a lot different than years past plans for spring break!). We are doing the one day method too - I'm a little nervous. We will see how it goes!
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