The Life and Times of Pottytraining

Potty training 2008 was kicked off at our house yesterday morning.

Garrett has been showing a lot of interest in the potty for several months now. He wanted to sit on it and occasionally things would happen, but most of the time he just sat there. I guess that's a hurdle in and of itself since he didn't mind sitting on the toilet, I knew I wasn't going to have to force him to do it when the time came to actually potty train. Yes, I know I could have started this back when he first started showing interest, but I knew that we had our trip to Indiana coming up and there was no way in the world that I wanted to drive 14 hours with a newly potty training 2 year old.

So I put it off until we were back in Texas.

In the past 30 hours I have cleaned pee off of the floor (hardwood and carpet) about 4 times. I'm not sure if that's good or not, considering that a good chunk of that time was spent sleeping and of course when he's sleeping he's wearing a diaper or pull up. I've tried to encourage him to stand up and pee thinking this would be a lot more fun but he only wants to stand and pee while in the bathtub (with his cousins!) or taking a shower. So sitting it is. I have to say that he looks awfully cute sitting on that big toilet with his underwear around his knees. :) But I know that's just the mom in me talking. I'm really struggling to keep myself from calling his underwear, panties. Keith will slap me down if he hears such nonsense. I've caught myself saying it enough times that I've heard Garrett refer to them as "pants", but I think that would be acceptable to dad.

I guess I should be thankful that no poop has been found on my floors. He seems to have it down as to wear that goes and hasn't had a problem with an accident in that department.
I just hope that he figures out the other somewhat quickly. I don't want my house to smell as if a cat has been in here marking it's territory.

If anyone has any suggestions as to special methods for potty training a boy, please feel free to pass those along. Just as an fyi, I am doing candy as a motivational tool for any time he does do something successfully in the bathroom. He's not to the point of understanding any sort of sticker chart or money incentive either.

If he's day time potty trained by the time he turns 3 in August, I will be happy. I'll keep you posted.