around the bend! I started the process of potty training with Jonathon Feb 21 2009.
As of April 5, 2010 Jonathon has been wearing underwear!!
Now he doesn't wear underwear ALL the time, but pretty darn close. Jonathon wears a pull up to bed at night ~ when he gets up in the morning I take him right to the bathroom to go potty ~ sometimes he is wet ~ sometimes he is not wet ~ after going potty we take off the wet/dry pullup and put underwear on for the day.
I now ask Jonathon around 3 hours if he needs to go potty ~ he will now answer me "yes" and then we go ~ I now ask Jonathon if he needs to go "poop" or pee ~ he will now answer me.
Since Jonathon has been wearing underwear sometimes I catch him undressing from the waist down ~ I ask "do you need to go potty?" ~ and most always his response is "yes" ~ and then we hurry off to the bathroom ~ and 98% of the time he does go.
When Jonathon takes a nap, I put a pull up back on him ~ he understands its just for sleeping ~ and when he wakes up from his nap I give him a few minutes and then we go potty and change back into underwear ~ sometimes he is wet ~ alot of times he is not wet.
When I was leaving the house I put a pull up on Jonathon ~ even though since I started potty training he has only been wet maybe 5 times ~ he has been the easiest out of my 3 boys to potty train ~ but I never wanted him to have an accident and send him 10 steps backwards so this was my security blanket I suppose.
But as of April 19th I decided it's time ~ I no longer put him in a pull up when we leave the house ~ well ok only for 1 thing and that is when he goes to school ~ he has never come home wet ~ it's just a little of my security blanket left I suppose ~ I will be working with Jonathon all summer on how to communicate with the teachers about potty since he will go to preschool full time in Sept ~ cannot even believe I am saying that.
Anyway, we get up, we go potty, we put underwear on for the day! He has been doing awesome~ I am so proud of him ~ My sister watched him on friday for a couple of hours ~ She told me that Jonathon walked over to her bathroom door ~ she then asked if he needed to go potty and he responded with "yes" AND he did go for her! HOORAY!
That has been another worry of mine that he won't go for someone else, so this makes me happy.
Now today we had another break thru! And this is why I say I see the finish line
This morning I was busy putting clothes away and getting ready to take a shower ~ Jonathon was watching t.v. in the living room and playing with his cars in the window ~ I knew he would be entertained for a little while with Elmo so I could hurry and get my shower done ~ I turned around in the bedroom and he was coming in kinda holding belly and pulling at waist of his pants ~ I said "Jonathon do you need to go potty?" He said "yes" I said "ok, lets go" He hurried off ahead of me and went straight to the bathroom, I helped him up on toilet and OMG he went within milliseconds!!! I was sooo happy that when he finished I let him know just how proud I was for him to come and find me and tell me he needed to go! He is becoming such a big boy!
And usually I take his hand and walk him off to bathroom, I didn't have to do that he went right ahead of me!
So now I will start working on waiting for as long as I think he can wait and see if he tells me he has to go! As far as I am concerned my son is potty trained! He wears underwear all day except for sleeping. Just because he doesn't verbally tell me ALL the time doesn't matter to me!
I won't give up ~ I will continue to work with him ~ I want him to be able to just go ~ Like I said "I see the finish line"
I am so proud of Jonathon! He truly is amazing!!