POTTY TRAINING: ACT I

Thanks everyone for your advice, I really appreciate any help that I can get! So I took a little bit of everyone's advice and put it all together. First, Friday night we went to Kmart to buy new big boy pants and I made a huge deal about it. I let Nico pick out what kinds he wanted, of course it was Bob the Builder and Thomas the Train....what was I thinking of buying anything else?? Then we came home and made a huge production of opening them, and trying them on over his diaper and then he helped me put them in the washer. So he was really excited and talking about his big boy pants!

So, Saturday he helped me get them out of the dryer and we put them on with his plastic pants over them and we talked about his big boy pants and made another huge deal about putting them on! Of course he didn't want to run around in just his undies, so we put his jeans back on and he was OK. I kept checking and trying to put him on the potty, but he didn't wet in his pants, although he didn't go in his potty either but he held it for over an hour.

Then on Sunday we tried again, when we got up I put on his big boy pants again but he insisted that put his jammie over them and after about 15 minutes I got the big boy potty out and turned on Bob the builder and we sat, and watched his movie while he sat on the potty for over an half an hour. Then I got him up and pulled up his "big boy pants" and he played for a while, still 2 hours without wetting in his pants!!

Even though I know that he hasn't ever gone on the potty it seems he is showing me that he can hold, which I think is a success but it's such a defeat that he won't give in and sit on the potty and use it!

Everyone keeps telling me that he is not ready, and I am going to keep trying on the weekends to introduce it and hopefully eventually he'll get the hang of it. I was hoping to have him at least partially potty trained by the time Pre-School starts in April, but we'll see........

Thanks again for all the advice, it has been really helpful and I will definitely refer back to it and take any others that could help! I told Bryan that I can't have him going to kindergarten in diapers........LOL!!!

Until our next adventure...........