Day Three

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good whatever time of day it may be for you. We are officially on Day Three of potty training in this household and things are going, okay. I don't think Levi understands when he has to go, so I have been putting him on the potty every 20 minutes. Maybe moving to 30 minutes today...I think he is ready. It's hard to tell with him sometimes, he's stubborn and loves his morning Cartoons...so sometimes he is fine with sitting on the potty and others he isn't. I refuse to put his "big boy potty" in the living room, because our living room is not the bathroom and he would sit on it all day if I let him in the living room, glued to the t.v. I decided today, we will forgo the big boy potty and use the real potty, all  day. He has Thomas the Train seat but usually prefers the Cars potty chair.

Yesterday we spent a lot of the day at my moms, I packed his bag  full of extra underwear and he wore a pull up for the car ride over. I also took his big boy potty with us, because he has this weird thing about using the bathroom other places. Things went well over there, no accidents except during nap time...which to me, is completely understandable right now. We're still using the M&M method but he has yet too poop on the potty...whiiiiich makes me a little nervous about his insides, but I guess if anything...he will learn you can't hold it that long.

Here we go

I'm starting this blog on what could be a life changing day, I am potty training my son. He is 2 and will be 3 on the 5th of November and honestly he has been probably been ready I'm just not a fan of change. So here I am 7 1/2 months pregnant, my husband is training for his first deployment and I am putting on my big girl pants and potty training him. I know it's not going to be easy, he's stubborn and I'm inconsistent but honestly, it's time. Who am I trying to convince, you or me? As I write this, he is dancing and watching Dora but I am so afraid he is doing the I just went in my big boy pants dance I can't help but ask him every two minutes if he went or needs to go. We have a timer set on my phone, so every half hour he can go and sit on his potty but we have been down this road before. Mommy gets tired of sitting around the house and fighting with Levi to get his butt on the potty and Levi gets frustrated with Mommy for yelling or being grumpy because we are stuck in the house. oh goodness. I am however determined this time around.  It helps this morning we took his diaper off after breakfast and he peed in his Cars potty. I was so proud of him & he was so proud of himself. 

We just had our first accident. I knew he had to poop but he kept telling me he didn't. Then he ran into his bedroom and tried to pretend he was "playing" for 2 minutes and wouldn't come out in the living room. I don't know how to handle that, I know I'm not supposed to yell at him but I have to show some type of disappointment right? I mean, I'm not supposed to just pretend everything is a-okay and let him continue...I just told him I wasn't mad that Mommy doesn't understand why he went in his pants and didn't just use the big boy potty. I set an alarm on my phone for every 15 minutes now and we will go from there.