As if I don't have enough laundry to do for 5 people, now we get to start potty training again!! Let's look at the positive though - diapers are expensive!! Bryce has been asking to use the potty for a couple of months now. When he would stand at the potty, he just could not figure out how to get anything out. On top of that, he hated the way underwear felt on him. So, about a month ago I bought Easy Ups, which are diapers that pull on like underwear. When he started wearing the Easy Ups he decided I no longer needed to change his diaper - he could do it himself! (Unless of course it was nasty!)
After a bad diaper rash in Colorado, we let him run around naked in the backyard for a couple of hours. The point was to let the rash get some air, but I guess seeing pee come out and feeling it at the same time made him realize what he was supposed to do while he is standing at the toilet. The day we got home he asked to use the potty. I was trying to unpack and told him in a little while, but he was persistent. For my sanity, I undressed him and he went to the potty and actually peed! I whooped and hoorayed for him, even though it was only a trickle. He ran to Paul, who was cooking, "Daddy, I pee pee in potty!" Daddy praised him and he ran back to the potty. He is now known as Little Jake. For those of you who don't know, Jake is our male Lab that likes to "mark his territory" while out and about. He is constantly lifting his leg and "trickling" on everything. While Bryce does not lift his leg to everything, he instead after every trickle runs to tell Daddy what he has done. This makes for some long potty sessions! And although I am the one that is constantly taking him to the potty and doing the extra laundry and scrubbing the porcelin and the floor around the porcelin, my praise means nothing to him. Everytime he pottys he runs to Daddy and tells him so he can hear Daddy praise him. If Daddy is not home it is "I call Daddy. I pee pee in potty." So to anyone who works with Paul and has been hearing his phone ring more than normal - we apologize.
We made a trip to the store and got all the firetruck, monster truck and choo choo train underwear we could find. He was only wanting the firetrucks, but after lots of begging, I convinced him to take the other vehicles as well. Everytime I showed him Finding Nemo or Scooby Doo or Spongebob, he would throw them on the floor. Whatever makes him want to use the potty is fine with me!
Overall he is picking this up much quicker than his brothers did. I guess that is the upside of being the baby brother, he has plenty of males to watch and learn from! Much of the time he is doing ALL his business in the potty, and this is only the first week! I only hope he sticks with this and it is not just a fun thing to do for now.
So, I will continue doing the extra laundry, and continually scrub the floors and toilets. And I will gladly, and sadly, look forward to not changing anymore diapers. It is just yet
another sign that ALL of my boys are growing up to quick!
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