Potty Champ

Big news around these parts! After 9 days in Kansas City with toilets all around and encouragement from grandparents on top of candy enticements, we officially have a potty trained boy!

More on our visit to Kansas City later this week, but this proud momma had to get a post up about my little man and how well he did this past week and a half on the potty. We wore big boy undies all day, every day, except for naps and overnight and we only had 3 accidents!

Let me rewind just a bit. We had been casually working on potty training with Drew over the past few months wearing undies on the weekends and some evenings. We didn't want to rush him and knew it would 'click' sometime in the near future. Actually, we had even planned to do the 3-day method in October when Derek had a Monday off and we had no plans!

The day we arrived he was switched to big boy undies and told there was a lot of candy if he would show his grandparents how he went on the potty. We had a shockingly successful day followed by two more awesome days before we had an accident. The 3 accidents that occurred half way through our trip were when he was very involved in activity and didn't want to stop. We realized we would need to pull him away from play moving forward if we didn't want another accident.

After that it was 2 more accident-free days, and then it was time to start the 13 hour drive back to Cleveland. We threw a potty in the car, placed a towel under his bum in his car seat and headed out. He made the entire 24 hour trip (we drive 6-7 hours over two days each) in big boy underwear except for the nighttime diaper in the hotel. He told us when he had to go and we would stop at the next exit and he even took an hour and a half nap and woke up dry as well.

Thanks to all of the supportive mothers out there who said to not worry about it, and that it would just 'click'. It definitely did and I'm excited to be in this next phase with him! I do think having him out of school for a week and constantly asking him if he needs to go helped, but candy was the ultimate reward for my little guy. He knew he got 3 jelly beans or skittles after a #1 and five after a #2 and he proudly would announce how much he was to receive after each bathroom break.

Now I just have to cross my fingers that he doesn't revert back at daycare and actually communicates to the teachers when he has to go!

Another milestone in the books for this one.