We’re 12 hours into it and so far, only 4 accidents (2 pee, 2 poop). Ian knows what he needs to do but the jury is out on whether he’d ever bother pottying without being asked.
Ian gets 5 M&Ms for going pee-pee on the potty. 1 M&M for sitting on the potty and trying. And we have a bazillion matchbox cars accumulated as a prize for going poopy on the potty.
I made the mistake of showing him the bucket o’ cars to emphasize that he gets a really awesome prize if he goes poopy on the potty. Since then, all he’s done is beg for cars. We’ve said over and over and over and over that he’ll get one if he goes poopy on the potty but I’m not sure he’s hearing anything besides “no”. I’m afraid he’s still going to poop his pants tomorrow. 🙁
Trying to keep a baby happy and asking a 3 year old every 5 minutes if he needs to go potty is exhausting. In addition, Ian never napped today so he’s really cranky. It’s been a long day and I wish it was bedtime for ME. 🙁
Here’s hoping that he poops in the potty tomorrow so we can give him a frickin’ car and he’ll stop begging.
4 hours in and we’ve had 1 peeing and 1 pooping accident. Not too bad.
I was not surprised by the poop accident since Ian has freaked out at any suggestion of pooping on the potty.
The pee accident was Ian not wanting to stop playing long enough to go potty. I’ll have to check his pants more frequently and ask him if he needs to go more often.
Ian being a sweet little thing
May 2007
Potty Training Marathon of 2009 begins tomorrow.
I’ve been dreading this day since I found out I was pregnant back in July of 2005. Unfortunately, we can avoid it no longer. If he doesn’t get potty trained soon, he won’t be able to go back to preschool in the fall.
So, if you could think some good thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.
Mom was doing a round of diaper changes earlier today and had both boys up on the bed. She was changing Matthew’s diaper when Ian said “Maphew, do NOT touch Ian’s weiner!!!” lol It was quickly followed up with a “Grammy, Maphew touched Ian’s weiner!!!”
When mom told me about this earlier today, I nearly peed my pants laughing so hard. 🙂