we decided this weekend was time – yikes! e had been talking about big boy underwear for forever so we decided to jump on board and run with it! friday night, we made sure that we had plenty of pairs of big boy underwear ready to go, got the potty pressies unpacked and put in a bag to reward e for going on the potty, and even blew up balloons and put them in their bathroom so that he was excited to go saturday morning. quite the production really!! i hope he doesn’t expect a party every time he goes to the bathroom on the potty:)
this post will probably contain tmi for most so feel free to skip the details :) e woke up saturday morning and we immediately took him to the bathroom where we really talked up going on the potty! he was excited about the balloons and really got excited when he found out there were presents involved! like a good boy, he went teetee on the potty and received his first potty pressie. he also put on his first pair of big boy underwear picked out himself!
he will hate me one day for this… 
our big boy underwear selection… 
the results {i know, i know…tmi:)} 
& the proud big boy with his thomas big boy undies… 
& his first potty pressie…he picked a book out of all of the toys & candy…what a good boy!!!
our plan was to take him to the potty every 15 minutes during the morning and for the most part, we stuck to it. he did a great job getting used to it with only 3 or 4 accidents. while that sounds like a lot, we were very proud of him for doing so well right out of the gate!
during nap time and bed time, we are going to stick to pull-ups for awhile but we did notice that his pull-ups were considerably drier than they have been so maybe he’s learning a little control…maybe.
after nap, we watched the winnie the pooh movie while the kiddos woke up. we had to pause the movie a couple of times for potty breaks but he did amazingly well and only had 2 accidents that afternoon!!
the cheeseballs watching winnie the pooh… 
that night, we were talking about how it went and brian asked what i thought. i told him that i honestly thought he had done a great job but that if i never saw the inside of their bathroom again, it would be too soon :) i’ve never spent so much time in a bathroom in my life!!
sunday morning we decided to skip church to continue the potty training adventure. we spent the day at home and we continued to ask evan if he needed to go potty but we didn’t ask as often and many times, he would tell us he needed to go. evan ended up only having one accident in the morning and one accident in the afternoon and did great!! the potty pressies might have helped motivate him a little!
the only issue we had was with #2. evan wouldn’t go on saturday and then on sunday, went to his certain place where he would sometimes go and take care of business in his diaper. i noticed he was there so i grabbed him and ran for the bathroom. he was able to finish up in the potty which was really good! he even got 2 potty pressies for going #2 – haha!! here’s hoping he catches on to both aspects of pottying quickly!!
i am so proud of our little guy and hope that he continues to be as excited about pottying as he has been! here’s hoping we are a “1 kid in diapers” household soon!!!
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