POTTY TRAINING!

Today I started full on potty training. Max has showed “signs” that he is ready for a while now. I have basically been the hold up. It seems like there was something going on every week so we just kept putting it off. The boys were sick, then we had a church meeting, so this week I decided it was time. This morning I started by putting Max in “big boy” underwear. He was really excited and when I sat him on the potty he peed. (Sidenote: We have been sitting Max on the potty every night before his bath to pee. He is always really excited about it and every night he pees without problem. I guess we just decided to do this to get Max use to going to the bathroom. He always gets one M&M everytime he pees in the potty and 2 M&Ms when he poops.) Since I teach on Mondays I had to have Nona (my mom) take over with the potty training. The initial plan was that we would sit Max on the potty every 30 minutes and basically make him sit there until he did something. (if we had to use some warm water we would) Mom told me that Max had an accident and told her he had to pee but it was too late. After that accident mom put Max in a pull up instead of underwear, which I told her to use if she needed to. After the first accident Max started telling my mom that he needed to pee. Every time he told her that he needed to go, he went, and got an M&M. She said that he had probably had 8 or 9 M&Ms, and that was when I came home at 1pm. After that initial accident this morning Max kept his pull up dry all day! When he saw me get a diaper out for Jake he told me that he doesn’t need a diaper anymore because he is a big boy. He is calling his pull up “big boy underwear”. I didn’t really plan on using pull ups, but if he keeps doing good then I will put him in underwear again. Day 1, SUCCESS!