Poopy News Volume 1
Posted: June 4, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I know many of you are anxiously awaiting news this morning on Carter’s bowel movement. You’ll be happy to know that he did, technically, poop on the potty. With his diaper on. He sat on the potty for a long time and kept telling me that he “didn’t have any poop in his hiney”. I asked him if he could poop in a diaper and he immediately said yes. Finally, after tons of encouragement and positive reinforcement, I was just too pooped to care. So I put a diaper on him and told him he needed to sit on the potty in his diaper and poop. He produced his gift in less than 30 seconds.
I congratulated him on pooping on the potty in his diaper and again told him about all the goodies he’d get when he poops in the potty. And I also reminded him what would happen if he poops on my floor again. I promised to give him a diaper if he tells me he needs to poop again later today.
tags: Carter, Potty Training 2 comments
No more poopy diapers?
Posted: June 4, 2007 at 12:35 am
I’m at a loss on this one. We took Carter and Gracey to a MLB game and Carter really had a good time. He even got to wear his big boy underwear. He’s had two days in a row with no accidents and is really doing well with the potty thing. In the mornings, I tell him to go to the playroom and poop so we can take his diaper off and put his big boy underwear on. And he does. Almost on command in the mornings. He absolutely refuses to go in the potty so I just let him go in his diaper.
Here’s where I’m at a loss. He knows we want him to poop in the potty. I have even told him he can tell me if he needs to go poop and I’ll get him a pull up or a diaper. However, this afternoon, he pooped in the playroom. ON THE FLOOR. That’s right. He pulled his shorts and underwear down, squatted down and crapped on my carpet. Stop laughing.
So he knew he had to poop and had enough time to drop his pants. The little potty was like 5 feet away from where he pooped. Why in the world didn’t he just poop on the potty? So I’m thinking now that he really knows and he really can control it most of the time. So do I put him in time out when he craps on my floor again? Okay, scratch that. I don’t care what you say, I’m putting him in time out if he poops ANYWHERE other than the potty or a diaper/pull up. We talked about it and he knows he will go to time out next time. I told him that from now on he’s going to put his poop in the potty like all the other big boys. He said okay. Ten bucks says he poops in his diaper again tomorrow.
Which is okay, I guess. But not on my carpet! UGH!
tags: Carter, Potty Training 6 comments
Potty Patrol
Posted: May 30, 2007 at 1:55 pm
The start of a beautiful day:
Me:Carter, are you ready for breakfast?
Carter: No, I’m not hungry
blah blah blah conversation continues for ten minutes or so.
Me: Come on, Carter, let’s go get breakfast
Carter: Remember? I said I’m not hungry?
This whole potty thing is getting a little dangerous. While he did very well, yesterday, with only one accident all day long, he started with an accident this morning. HOWEVER, I believe it was quite intentional. I sent him to his room for a time out and came out 30 seconds later saying he had gone pee pee. And, he had. But it wasn’t even enough to make a mess, just enough to require a change of underwear. I really think he thought that was the fastest way to get out of his room. Little stinker. So I changed him and sent him back to his room for a few minutes.
Overheard in our house Monday morning:
Daddyo: Look, it’s already raining.
Carter: Awwww, SHOOOOT! it’s raining today.
Overheard several times yesterday:
Me: Carter, do you want [insert any random item here]
Carter: sure, baby
I call him baby a lot and he’s picking it up now and calling me baby. It’s hilarious.
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Pooped in Potty Town
Posted: May 28, 2007 at 3:15 pm
The hell that is potty training has seriously begun. Why didn’t anyone tell me that pull-ups were supposed to be a short term thing? Carter has been in pull-ups for about 2 months, and we’ve encouraged him to potty off and on as we have remembered. I guess my hope of him just waking up one day and already potty trained isn’t going to happen. 
So he’s been in big boy underwear for three days now. Yesterday, he had no accidents! So far today, he’s only had one small one. We’re doing M&M’s as rewards on some days and stickers on others. The stickers encouraged him to take the initiative this morning but only once. So here is my question. For those of you potty training veterans out there, should we be constantly reminding him all day long or should we give him the chance to notice on his own that he needs to go? I mean, we’re taking him to the potty every 15 – 30 minutes now. Should we keep that up until he starts going on his own? Please, some one just give me step by step instructions on this. Preferably something that will work yesterday.
In other news, we can’t get Carter to even agree to want to poop on the potty. He can tell when he has to poop but he’s just not going on the potty. He pooped in his underwear yesterday but didn’t seem all that phased by it. Today, when it was time, we put him in a diaper. I know, that’s cheating. ANyway, guess who did poop on the potty this morning? No, it wasn’t me. Not yet, anyway, Gracey pooped on the little potty! I could tell she was ready to go so I just stuck her on there and off she went. I was hoping that might encourage Carter – you know, a little sibling rivalry. He was so excited for her – but had no interest in following suit.
Potty training
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SUCKS
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tags: Carter, Potty Training 4 comments
Boxer Briefs
Posted: May 25, 2007 at 3:14 am
What’s funny about the whole potty training thing is that I’m really not frustrated by it at all. It’s not like I’ve really been trying – I put the kid in a pull up and then forget to take him to the potty. I did put him in underwear for a while today and he did fine until dinner time. He peed and was very bothered by it – so maybe we should say audios to pull ups and just deal with the mess for a while. I guess I need to plan a week when we can stay home a lot. Ugh.
We did buy him some adorable boxer briefs today at Target. His little butt is soooo cute in those things. They are “just like daddy’s” and he actually picked them over the Thomas the Train underwear. Now that you all know what type of underwear daddy-o wears, I’m sure you’ll sleep better. 
From what I’m hearing from other mom’s it looks like I’m going to be cleaning poop out of underwear before it’s all said and done. Nice. Guess I better go buy more underwear. Ick.