Potty Training

***I’m sorry if you have no interest in this but I have decided to actually turn my blog into a journal for our family so I really want to remember this***

I had been putting it off for quite awhile. I didn’t want to do it pregnant and feeling crappy, and then I’d heard if I do it too close to when Andrew is born he’ll regress back to accidents, etc. and I just didn’t think he seemed ready, at all.  But I think I was wrong!  My friend Erin started to potty train her 28 month old boy last week and he was doing great so I thought about how Ty is 3 and if Wes could do it than hopefully Ty could.  I was planning on doing it next month but just decided to give it a shot and get it over with.  Don’t even begin to ask me my system because in the course of a day I changed my game plan around 4 times.  Let’s just say the system consisted of lots of jelly beans, stickers and Thomas the Train.   The only thing I was consistent about and wouldn’t budge on was that I wouldn’t let him get into a diaper.  I told him those were gone, period.  He cried a few times through out the day about it but he understands now.  The day started off with 4 accidents.  And each time he profusely apologized.  I couldn’t get mad at that at all.  He was so sincere and sorry about it.  Then we had 4 successes!!!! He did have an issue with poop that ended up in an accident.  Even though the poop was an accident he seriously was so close to it not being.  I laid him down for his nap and 2 minutes later he comes out yelling that he has to go poop.  He sat on the potty for about 4 minutes and nothing came.  So he said he was done.  I took him back to his room and 2 minutes later he came out yelling again but it was too late.  I was just proud of him for realizing the feeling and being close.  Anyway, it is day number 2 and he’s already had 1 success and he did it all by himself.  I’m a proud mommy right now.  I would have done this 6 months ago if I had known how good he’d do!

I’ll spare you the picture of him sitting on the potty but I have a picture of him helping color his Thomas sticker chart and flexing his muscles at the end of (what I believe to be) a successful day!

Oh and yesterday Andrew woke up with crusty crap in his eye.  I was like oh gosh, please don’t be pink eye.  I can’t handle it today. I don’t think it is but I still called the pediatrician and got drops just in case.  They said it is probably a plugged tear duct but regardless they would treat it the same way.  Worrying about Tyson and the potty was enough and I couldn’t believe I had to think about Andrew’s eye as well.