A) He gets a big boy bed
B) We turned in the paperwork for preschool (not sure if he's in yet)
C) Drew finally puts on underwear for the first time
So what does Drew do? He hops on top of his toy box and starts dancing and wiggling in his Wiggles undies! Of course that's the pair that we actually get him to wear. The past few weeks it's been massive screaming fits just suggesting he put on his underwear. Offer up his beloved "Johnny" and voila.Drew was absolutely hamming it up watching himself in his new attire. What really had us rolling was when he was "shake, shake, shake... shake, shake, shake, shake your booty" in the mirror!
So we put him in his undies while we were getting him ready for bed - and he stayed in them until bedtime. No accidents.
Last night I put him in them shortly after we got home from day care, and we had our first accident about an hour later. Despite my asking him if he had to go "make water" every 15 minutes, I guess he was too distracted playing with his hot wheels. Our 2nd accident... at dinner.
It's a work in progress, but at least we're making progress! He put on his undies. No one told me how adorable the tushie would be once the bulky diapers were off. Now the big question will be - how to make the pants that barely fit around the waist fit with a diaper... fit without the diaper.
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I guess when you have dancing guys on your hiney you have no choice but to shake it! As far as keeping up the pants at least it will be shorts weather and you can go back to what fits around the waist - maybe you can get use out of last years wardrobe again.
ReplyDeleteToo cute :)
ReplyDeleteNot that I am a pro at the potty training thing but if you are seriously going to give it all and potty train you need to spend at least a couple days dedicated to "peeing" every 15 minutes. That means sitting him down on the potty every 15 min until he goes then give him an hour and then do the 15 min time frame again until he pees the next time. I think if you just put him in his underware hoping that the difference in feeling underware vs diaper will make him want to pee in the toilet, I don't think that will work and it may just confuse him when you are totally serious about training. He might think that he doesn't "always" need to pee in the toilet when he has underware on. JUST MY OPINION. Good luck with this "fun" task. By the way, AMJ were 3 years and 2 months when we battled that hurdle - only a week before preschool started! What was I thinking? Anyway, don't take this personally but this is just what I found out training AMJ.
ReplyDeleteBy the way AMJ LOVED Drew's pics! They thought it was funny.
ReplyDeleteSince we get a food donation I'll add my opinion - If Ms. Stephanie is on board you need to hard core it. Diapers (or pull-up) only at nap and bedtime for now. My three were fully trained by 2.5. Though only experience with boys was a daycare boy I had and he was probably about Drew's age. Sis-in-law (stay home mom, other child in school full-time) is letting nephew rule (tantrums/refusing)and he will be 4 in three weeks and is not trained at all (yes you all can go "gross" now).
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Jodi & Chrissy - as long as Stephanie is on board with hard core training, use the diapers/pull ups only at nap/bed time. It is too easy for them to be confused. It takes a little time and patience. With as fast as Drew catches on to things, he'll be trained in no time at all. Both you girls were fully trained by 2.5 years old. Matt on the other hand....
ReplyDeleteSHAKE YOUR BOOOOTY!!
ReplyDeleteSorry I have no potty training tips...
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