Day 2 of Potty Training

This morning didn't start out so well. Not by any fault of Eli, but by Mommy. It was a late night with Eli and I ended up falling asleep before I could finish the laundry. So when he woke up, I didnt have any training pants ready and waiting. Then last night, I realized I only had one diaper left for the morning so we also had to make a trip to the store.

Now at this point you might be thinking how incredibly unorganized I am. Don't worry, so am I. I usually have my diapers shipped to me from Amazon and I also have a back up pack in case I run out. Well when the diapers ship over the weekend they take longer therefore I ran out of my back up. When I got home from the store, (with the diapers) my diapers from Amazon were waiting on the front porch :). Oh well. I needed more training pants anyway cause 7 pairs are just not enough! Now we 13 pairs. And I wont have to do any laundry tonight.

So after Eli woke up from his nap, we had dinner and he was playing at the table with playdough (wearing a diaper). I was finishing up the dishes when he came over to me with his diaper. He has been so helpful* lately with changing his diaper for me. So I figured we'd get in at least a few hours of wearing training pants so the whole day was not a loss. We put on the Old MacDonald ones. He requested them. I asked him if he had to go pee pee, and when he said no I reminded him that he was not wearing a diaper. We went into the bathroom to at least try about every 20-30 mins. We were approaching almost two hours without any pee pee so I knew an accident would happen soon if we didn't do it.

I've been luring him in there on and off with the promise of M&M's. This may backfire but for now I'm using this method. While he was sitting on the potty, I went to the kitchen to get some candy and when I came back he had a weird look on his face. I sat on the toilet across from him and hear his tinkeling! I screamed "you're going pee pee Eli". I was so excited!!! I almost missed his first time going. He started after I left. We called Daddy in to see and made a big tada out of it. We poured the pee pee in the big potty and Eli got to flush it down. I'm so encouraged for Day 3!!



*Insert sarcasm here