Potty Training Success

Back on August 6th I had a post titled "Nathan's Exciting News" in which I celebrated Nathan's first time going #1 on his little potty. Well we've been on a long journey for the past eight months trying to move toward being fully potty trained. For some reason (which completely baffled me) Nathan was terrified of putting on underwear. I figured he'd just grow out of it and one day decide that he was too big for pull-ups and we'd be down to just one pull-up user at our house.

Well last Friday (April 4th) we went to our usual playgroup at a friend's house and while we were there both boys filled up their pull-ups with #2. (I know that is pretty gross but it's part of life right now - or at least it used to be.) Anyway, I didn't realize until after getting Nathan all cleaned up that I had just put the last pull-up from that bag on Benjamin. I told Nathan to just pull his sweat pants back on and I'd go get him a pull-up from another bag in the van. (I didn't want him running around a co-ed playgroup half naked!) At that point Nathan decided that he liked not having a pull-up on and declared that he was too big for pull-ups. I was elated to hear those words come out of his mouth but a bit concerned that he was not wearing any underwear. However, I figured this was a step in the right direction albeit a bit unconventional.

Nathan had a small #1 accident that afternoon at home but as long as I asked him about every hour or so if he needed to potty he stayed dry. That evening we spent the night with my parents because David was out of town. When David came home he was greeted by a very proud (but still commando) Nathan. Dad just had to be the one to make the underwear thing an issue. He patiently talked Nathan through it an helped him (still upset) into a pair of underwear. Within ten minutes Nathan loved wearing his underwear and was so proud to be such a big boy. That night we celebrated by eating at Chick-fil-A in the mall and letting Nathan pick out some more underwear at Sears. He stayed dry for the whole outing and went potty as soon as we got home.

He got to move up to the three year olds Sunday School class on Sunday and enjoyed that. He had his last #2 accident at Grammy's house this past Tuesday. I really think he has arrived! He's still in an overnight pull-up at night and occasionally has a #1 accident during his nap but he is doing great for someone who was still in pull-ups eight days ago. Needless to say -we're very proud.

One down - one to go. Benjamin already wants to wear underwear like his big brother so as soon as he's able to recognize when he needs to go potty he'll be on his way. Yeah!