At first I tried to potty train him by letting him run around naked...
But this caused a lot of extra work. I was more anxious to get him on the toilet frequently, I had to clean up several messes, I pulled up most of our carpets, and I tried to keep him off the couch. By the end of two days, I was exhausted. The cloth diapers were a pain to take off and put on at a moment's notice. So, finally, I decided that we needed to try training undies. We had three that grandparents brought us. However, I knew I'd need more than that. So, we went on a little shopping trip and bought 11 pairs of big boy undies for about the price of a good cloth training diaper. I took them home and cut up a few cloth prefold I had that were ripping to shreds and were no longer being used. I sewed up any loose ends and using one safety pin, pinned them to each pair of underwear. This didn't take much time and, Voila!
I now have 11 training undies! Over the training diapers I put dappi diaper covers, as they are easy to pull on and off. So, over the weekend we stressed that if he goes pee-pee in the potty, he can wear his big-boy undies. Suddenly, he took to it. On Sunday he went 5 or 6 times. Today he's already gone several times and has been dry most of the day. I don't know how long this will last, but I'm enjoying it for now!
And his potty turns into a step stool!
Lots of stickers! (And we have a poor whale and penguin in the mountain valley on the bottom)
And for some random pictures:
He pushed the step stool over to the counter and began to each raw chopped onions.
2 comments:
I am so impressed that he is potty training already, with success! I know plenty of kids much older who aren't potty trained. You are doing a great job!
Aww, thanks. I don't think I can take any credit, though. :) And he may still regress. But at least he seems to like it right now!
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