Our life with Joseph

Do Not Disturb!

What’s going on in our house currently? Full blown, full force Potty Training.  Someone on one of my mom boards posted about a method of potty training that takes only three days! I’ve been putting it off because well, you need three days in a row that you can devote to staying at home. So this weekend was the perfect oppurtunity because of the holiday Monday. So yesterday I set out to potty train my child and be rid of diapers for good(with him!)

These are the main points of the method

• Lots of love, patience, focus and determination
• Toss the diapers(have your child do it)
• Let them run around the house in just underwear and shirt(makes it much easier to see accidents)
• Lots of liquids to drink
• Stay by their side every second of every day, so that you can watch for when they are going to go and when they do, whisk them to the potty
• Lots and lots and lots of praise(and some rewards, we are using m&m’s…he gets 2-5 per pee on the potty)

So far I would say that it is going really well. For the child who only did a tiny sprinkle in Grandma’s toilet one evening when she was watching him. He became the child who pee’d on the potty four times on the first day, I believe we had three or four accidents. He also pee’d a tiny bit in his underwear each time, but because I was watching I whisked him right up to the potty and he would finish there. Today was day two, from 8-noon he was in the same pair of underwear and went potty 3 times without them getting wet. In total he pee’d eight times on the potty and had two accidents, and only two times where there was some pee first. We were waiting for the big #2 and then daddy gave him a bath. But Daddy didn’t follow the rule of watching the big boy at all times, instead he was talking on the phone with a friend while pacing in the bathroom. So for the very first time in Joseph’s 32 months of life, he pooped in the tub. And A LOT! Oh well, daddy had to clean it up and we moved on. Hopefully we have another chance to potty train with #2 soon!

It’s been fun the last two days(as well as a little stressful and hectic) But I can really tell that Joseph loves me being by his side almost every second of the day. My eyes are constantly on him and I follow him around. Noramlly there is a lot of time during the day where he gets to do his own thing while I get stuff done around the house but the last two days because I have been on potty watch we have spent plenty of time together! Joseph is one smart cookie, although he struggles with his colours, he is picking up shapes really fast! His favorite is the circle and he points it out every where and can even draw a circle now! He mimics the ABC song and I hope that with me singing it anyone from 1-10 times a day he will pick it up soon. His favorite movie as of last sunday (which this is his first as he has never been interested before now) is Wall-E. He loves it and asks for it multiple times a day(I try to make it only once, although with the constant training we did watch it twice yesterday) He loves to paint…way more than he loves to colour! And his vocabulary grows by multiple words a day. It’s so much fun to watch him grow and learn and change!

And because a post isn’t a post without pictures..here you go!