One downside to such a great first day is setting the bar too high for Day 2. Day 1 was a breeze. Hayden was enthusiastic and proud. I was focused and energetic. Everything was centered around Hayden.
Day 2 was a little different. We started the same as yesterday around 10am and the first pee of the day was at 11:30am with consistent 15 minute "potty visits". It was a good start despite the fact that things were cray-cray around here. Owen wasn't as content with just chilling in his swing. He did a lot, but not like yesterday. Steve was doing heavy-lifting errands so Logan was home with us. The hardest part today was keeping both boys in the kitchen to avoid accidents on carpet, etc. Without focus solely on Hayden, I found it not only harder for him to concentrate on the task at hand, but also harder for me to enforce consistent "potty visits".
We managed to overcome most distractions with two pees on the potty between 10am-1pm. Yesterday there was no poo to be had so we didn't get to see how he'd do when the time came. Today, while sitting in time out with Logan, "the time came". Sadly, for all involved, i found out that he wasn't quite ready to announce his needs for poo quite as great as he's been doing with pee. Accident #1 for day 2.
Because we had such a late start to the day, lunch didn't come until almost 2:00. I made the decision to not return to diapers, so we went for a fancy family lunch at McDs in big boy pants. All lunch (no less than 20 times) I asked if he needed to go, and each time he replied no. We made a special trip to the McDs potty to try, but still no go. It may have been finishing the milk on the ride home, but from the potty at McDs and the driveway at home, 5 minutes, he did have another accident, accident #2. He almost got away with it too because as I pulled him out of the car, Logan was turning on the Car Wash and they both ran, clothes and shoes and all, into the water :) Score for cleaning it up!
After getting cooled off and cleaned up we tried again, no go. Sticking to my "no diaper" deal, I did compromise with a pull up. I was very clear as i put him for a nap (a nap we skipped yesterday since PT was going so well) that these were UNDERPANTS NOT A DIAPER. He wasn't fooled and used his Pull up as a diaper during nap (i'm fine with this on Day 2 of training).
As he woke up from nap and we started on the evening routines of dinner, play and bed all bare bummed again, I figured that Day 2 went to shit.... what i didn't realize was how right I was, in the wrong way!.......
After nap, Hayden's potty training returned and he went pee twice on his own. REALLY, ONE HIS OWN. He started to refuse to let me go with him. He walked himself over, climbed up and peed! I was so excited. Since he had a long and late nap, when 8:00 rolled around, I let him stay up. As we all sat around playing the M&M game (we give the kids a handful of M&Ms, but they can only eat them after they color match all the ones they have, and count the colors in English, French and Spanish) Hayden popped up and announced he had to go again. We let him enter on his own. From inside the bathroom he announced his success! "I did it" he cried! As Steve went to inspect, what he found was a surprise. THE BIGGEST POOP EVER! Once i got over my excitement that Hayden had gone on his own, AND POOPED, I immediately realized our luck in keeping him up! If he had gone to bed, poor kid would have done THIS in him diaper and poor mom or dad would have had to clean it! SCORE FOR ALL!
I am so proud of Hayden. This has been such a laid back, low pressure experience. My advice to parents (from my vast bank of potty training experience - ha ha) is to wait till they are ready. If its a terrible, horrible, no go, very bad experience,.. they are not ready. If you wait, then on Day 2 your big boy will take himself to the potty and make the biggest poop ever on his own too!!!
As he woke up from nap and we started on the evening routines of dinner, play and bed all bare bummed again, I figured that Day 2 went to shit.... what i didn't realize was how right I was, in the wrong way!.......
After nap, Hayden's potty training returned and he went pee twice on his own. REALLY, ONE HIS OWN. He started to refuse to let me go with him. He walked himself over, climbed up and peed! I was so excited. Since he had a long and late nap, when 8:00 rolled around, I let him stay up. As we all sat around playing the M&M game (we give the kids a handful of M&Ms, but they can only eat them after they color match all the ones they have, and count the colors in English, French and Spanish) Hayden popped up and announced he had to go again. We let him enter on his own. From inside the bathroom he announced his success! "I did it" he cried! As Steve went to inspect, what he found was a surprise. THE BIGGEST POOP EVER! Once i got over my excitement that Hayden had gone on his own, AND POOPED, I immediately realized our luck in keeping him up! If he had gone to bed, poor kid would have done THIS in him diaper and poor mom or dad would have had to clean it! SCORE FOR ALL!
I am so proud of Hayden. This has been such a laid back, low pressure experience. My advice to parents (from my vast bank of potty training experience - ha ha) is to wait till they are ready. If its a terrible, horrible, no go, very bad experience,.. they are not ready. If you wait, then on Day 2 your big boy will take himself to the potty and make the biggest poop ever on his own too!!!
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