Wednesday, December 02, 2009

A Potty Post:
So these are moments in (Levi's) potty training history. Today has been a good PT day. He has been dry all morning minus one accident (#2 is still an issue). And I think I can safely say that he is physically capable of being potty trained. Here is why...

It had been a while since he had gone potty this morning so I asked him to try again. We are in full potty mode so him saying no doesn't fly around here. So when he said no, I threatened him with punishment. (I am not expecting him to pee every time, but I want him to obey me and sit on the potty when he is asked). He then proceeded to sit down like he was asked...30 seconds later, he jumped up and said, "I did it!" I was overjoyed because not only did he pee in the potty, but my intuition was right. I did the usual and made a big deal out of it and took it to the toilet. Then I placed the potty back down and grabbed Rachel to feed her. He then sat right back down on the potty and peed again. Yeah!!! I was surprised that he peed twice in the matter of 3 minutes. I then cleaned up the pee (still feeding mind you) and sat the potty back down, and guess what??? yep you guessed it, he did it AGAIN...and then AGAIN. So, in the matter of about 6 minutes he peed four times! All of them he waited until his potty was back in its spot before peeing. This is the first time he has actually done this type of thing. I know he enjoys the praise, but that seemed to take real muscle control to pee so many times in a row. My goal is to have him #1 PT at home by the end of the year...does that seem lofty?