Potty Training 2 of 2!!!

Well as my Aunt Susan recently pointed out to me I have fallen behind on blogging so I'll try to catch up.

One effort we had undertaken was to attempt to potty train my 3 yr. old Nicolas. Boys can notoriously be slow to potty train but I am happy to report that Nicolas jumped on the bandwagon fairly quickly. We started 3 weeks ago and within a week he was starting to use the potty for #1 sometimes. We went camping with our friends the Moxley's (see an upcoming post) and brought his training potty to the woods to continue the process and to encourage him to go when he needed to. We set the potty outside the tent which was in the adjacent campsite to where we set up the cooking and play area. That led to Nicolas running off from time to time yelling "I've got to go potty!" which was really funny. He had an accident or two and didn't quite get the hang of making sure he was aiming in the potty but by in large he got it during the camping trip.

Last week (the week after camping) he used the potty for nearly everything and happily graduated to "pooping" on the potty!

So in what was really just 2 full weeks we went from no interest in using the potty to completely done! He is even dry at nights and gets up and goes first thing in the morning.

I must say that there were several keys to the process for us. First we never got upset when he had an accident, just encouraged him to keep trying. Second we bought a ton of "big boy nickers" with all of his favorites, spider man, Thomas the tank engine etc. and put him in those as a continued reward for doing well. (one funny aside, some of the underwear had spider man on the back only, causing Nicolas to wear them backwards which was quite humorous because he tended to get a bit of "cheek leak" in the back because of is ample behind!)

I am happy to say that not only can we see the light at the end of the diaper tunnel we are standing in it!