Bedtime

Last night, it was way past Tyler's bedtime and he did not want to go to bed (as usual). He was playing with the Christmas tree lights, as he has done before, and went to turn them off. When he did that I said, "oh, the lights off means it is time to go night-night..." He immediately walked back over to plug and turned the lights back on. Hilarious! Steve and I were trying to hold in our laughs, but it was way to funny.

Potty Training - Day 1

Yesterday was Day 1 of a 3 day potty training technique that I am trying. I have put off potty training because 1. I wanted to make sure Tyler was completely ready (I have heard the horror stories if they are not ready) 2. I wanted to be ready myself. Now that he is three and we have a little one on the way, now is as good of time as any. With this 3 day training, you pretty much are secluded to the house until the three days are over. It is having to be close by at all times in case it is time to go. They said the first day was the most difficult, so I prepared myself as best I could.

We started out by going to the store and picking out the big boy underwear. I ended up getting tons because I had no idea how many we would go through. I also picked up one of those seats to put on the toilet so they don't feel like they are going to fall in. We got a Toy Story one. We have a another one that is a potty chair that does not go on the toilet, but I wanted him to practice on the big potty too. I bought several chocolate rewards for when he went in the potty and also lots to drink throughout the day. After that we were ready to go!

When we got home I was still hesitant. I have no idea why, I think was just worried on how it was going to go. I finally put that first pair of big boy underwear on him and told him that diapers were gone...no more diapers! I told him to tell me when he needed to go potty and we would go in the big potty. Of course, since this was new to him, I did not expect him to do it right away. We had three accidents, including a #2 one. On the second accident (the #2), I knew he was about to do it because he goes off by himself when he is about to go, like he is hiding. I took him to the restroom, but he did not want to sit down. He was mostly finished before I could finally get him on, but he did go a little in the toilet.

By the fourth time, all of the sudden he came to me and said "it's coming, it's coming!" and was holding it. We ran to the bathroom together and sure enough he went! Not only was I so proud of him, but he was so proud of himself and was smiling so big. I was going crazy with excitement letting him know what a great job he did. He got his chocolate treat and we called daddy right away. The next time around, same thing..."it's coming, it's coming!" We ran to the bathroom again and he went again! I was excited...he was excited yelling "I did it!" Crazy as it sounds, it was a such a great moment. I knew he was getting the hang of it and he did too.

This continued the rest of the day with only two other accidents. One just happened at some point during the day and the other happened when he fell asleep on the couch before I could have him go the the restroom one more time before bed. I knew that one would happen because he was asleep and he had had something to drink not to long before he passed out. The total for Day 1 was 8 successful and 5 unsuccessful. The fact that he caught on so quickly with only a couple of accidents afterwards made me really happy. He way surpassed my expectations and I was relieved. Day 1 was not the nightmare I believed it would be.

I loved hearing the excitement in my baby's voice when he did it. I think we definitely fed off of each other in the excitement department.