Adventures in Potty Training: Part 2

Tolan came down with a fever this afternoon - 102.6 - so that kind of threw a wrench into my potty training boot camp. So we had a sort of watered-down version of what I was supposed to do from the book. However, I am happy to report that we had success! I am totally amazed and so happy with today's progress. I'm sure we will still have accidents, but I feel like we have had a breakthrough.

Tolan wanted to take a nap at 8:30 this morning - so I should have seen the fever coming. Anyway, that nap allowed me to start Logan out with about 2 1/2 uninterrupted hours of potty training. Logan resisted at times and I wanted to give up at times, but I just toughed it out and kept going. About 2 hours into it - he did it! He wet the potty and I hate to admit that that was probably one of the most exciting moments of my life. Logan and I were both so happy. He had to go again about 20 minutes later and he told me, so we went and he wet the potty again! After that I figured he was emptied out and Tolan had just woken up. So we took a break for Logan to take a nap.

After his nap he had 2 tiny accidents (not enough to have to clean up the floor or anything). I think those little accidents were just leading up to going in the potty. They were such minor accidents that I think he knew he was starting to wet his pants and stopped, then held it in, b/c the third time he told me he had to go and then it was a lot - in the potty though! So now he gets it. And we'll just keep going from here. I'm very pleased though. So I'm sure if I had followed the book exactly and been more available to him the rest of the day it would have worked even better. But I feel that I definitely got my 6 bucks worth.

For anyone interested, here's the link to where I got it. It looks a little infomercial-ish and I was a little skeptical, but I figured "$6? That's a lot less than another pack of diapers!" http://members.aol.com/pattispages/pottytraining.html

So I'll keep you posted to see if it sticks over the next few days.