Success!!

I know I've blogged about this once already, but I thought I would give an update about it!! Back on the 16th of June, I decided Nathan was ready to be potty trained. And, I was finally ready to work on it with him. I had been dreading this for quite some time because of horror stories I had heard. But I think I just caught him at the right time. We started using Gerber training pants, which look & feel just like big boy underwear, they are just a little thicker in the middle, just in case there is an accident. (Several people have asked me where to find these, and they are at Wal-Mart, Target, and I'm sure other places, in the baby section, where you find onesies, and rubber pants, etc.)

That morning I told him we were going to start using the potty all the time and not use diapers any longer. He said ok, and told me right away he needed to go. We have had a little "potty" out since he was two, but never really had any success with it. He would go on occasion in it, but not regularly, but I never pushed it. I was going to wait until he was ready. He would sometimes go on the big potty and had even done #2 in the big potty about a week before we started the actual potty training. He told me he needed to go and he went.

The day we actually started the potty training, he had only 3 accidents, all were outside. He would start playing and forget to tell me.

I put him in a pull-up that night, but it was dry the next morning. So the following night, I used the regular underwear, and he woke up and told me when he needed to "pee pee", he went, and went right back to sleep after we got back from the potty!

He's been in underwear ever since! He's only had a couple of accidents at night, and I think that's because we didn't hear him wake up.

Supernanny's approach is the one we used pretty much, no pull-ups, she doesn't recommend pull-ups. We did use them a few times before because they were just easier to change when we went out. But she recommends putting them in underwear so they can feel it, and I think that's what worked for us, and the fact that we were both ready!

We started on Monday and we also told him if he went all week on the potty, he would get a big boy bike..with training wheels of course! By Wednesday, he was doing great, in underwear all the time. So on that Saturday, we went to Wal-Mart and let him pick out his big boy bicycle! He loves it! He tells people he got a big boy bike b/c he pp's on the potty...too funny!

Potty trained in 3 days, I guess a little bribery never hurt anyone!!

I'm sure some people are wondering why I'm very detailed in this posting, but it's so I can remember everything whenever I get around to putting it in the scrapbook that I'm 2 years behind in!!!