Potty Palooza!

I am officially off diaper duty until mid April!  This post is all potty talk so if you aren't interested, I'm warning you to just skip this one all together.  Our timeline went like this:

• Starting at 12 months I sat Collin on the toilet every night before bath to conquer any fears he may have had.
• After making quite a few potties in the toilet I attempted our first day in big boy undies at 17 months, all of 5 hours and 6 undies later he clearly wasn't ready!
• I waited a few more months and he started showing more "ready" signs.
• Collin started making almost all of his poops on the toilet starting in November.
• He has always hated dirty diapers so the "poop training" was easy!
• December all 3 of us were sick a good majority of the time but we kept working on going potty on the toilet but still wearing diapers.
• I picked the best/worst time to start really training when we were trapped at home sick after Christmas.
• best = staying home not really venturing out much at all
• worst = Collin had diarrhea from the antibiotics for his ear infections!
• Collin also had RSV!!!  Our poor little guy.
• Even with the meds Collin was still making poops on the toilet, truly amazing, so I knew he was really ready this time!
• 3 days of almost no accidents in his diapers and it was time...
• BIG BOY UNDIES HERE WE COME!
• I decided to do it big and put him down in undies for nap.  No messing with Pull-ups!!!
• Call me crazy but so far, so good.
• He usually goes about every hour or 2 and always before bed and right when waking up.

I really believe you have a small window of opportunity when your child is around 2 to fully potty train.  If you don't catch them when they are ready, you missed your chance and are stuck changing poopy diapers til 3 1/2.  I had very high hopes of getting Collin out of diapers before his 2nd birthday and before baby #2 is here.

When I broached the subject with the pediatrician at Collin's 18 month appointment, she held back laughing in my face.  Trying to gently ease the blow by telling me the American way is 3-4 with boys being potty trained.  I almost fell out of my seat because there was no way in hell I was changing a 4 year olds diaper.  This was all I needed to hear to get me motivated to get this boy in undies.  There is nothing like someone telling you you can't do it, to make you want to do it even more. 

Our first day in undies was a total success.  No accidents at all.  Now there is no going back and we have a Big Boy on our hands.  And seriously, his little butt is so cute in undies!   He has now been in undies for over a week and we have had a few potty accidents and no poop accidents.  Thank goodness...

Here is our little man in his big undies!  He loves to pick out his undies for the day right when he wakes up and then he runs to the potty.

Helping with the dishes.



Touchdown!