Do You Do The Potty Dance? Tavin Does:)

Katie waiting patiently while we are working at potty training. Just a side note-aren't those leggings absolutely adorable! This is why having girls is so fun-don't get me wrong-I love my little boy-but girls have so much more versatility when it comes to clothes and cuteness:)

Potty watch

Underwear Styles

Thomas Seat

Monday of this week we started the dreaded Potty Training. We geared up before hand with a potty watch( a pretty cool little training tool that goes of every 30, 60, or 90 minutes and sings a song-letting tavin know that he needs to try again-it automatically resets itself after it is done singing-so no hastle to it either! He loves to wear it-even when it is turned off for the night time...makes him feel like a top dog I guess:), Lots of variety in underwear styles-we have the Thomas the Train underwear, Elmo underwear, Diego underwear, and Zoo animals underwear-don't worry no one feels left out because Tavin likes to switch styles at least 5 times a day, and then we got the Thomas potty seat so that we won't have any falling in if we lose our grip...

The first day we had a couple pee pee accidents in his underwear-until finally he got one in the toilet and then it was smooth sailing from there! I it almost seems like he just needed to see that it was easy and not scary. Then, Tuesday-we had to deal with the whole doing number 2....lets just say that it didn't go very well the first time. He "messed" on Elmo-and then we had to have a talk about the fact that poop goes the same place as pee-IN THE TOILET not in the underwear and that his underwear friends (Thomas, Diego, and Elmo) did not want to be pooped or peed on...I know sounds kind of silly but it worked!! He didn't like the feeling of pooping in his underwear and came running as soon as he did it begging me to change him:)

Wednesday-no accidents yet to speak of and it is 5:11 pm! We even went to story time at the Library without anything happening-I had an extra pair of undies and clothes in the bag and we didn't even have to use them.

The next step-a sticker chart to continue to encourage him on the potty training process. As soon as he fills up all the spaces on the chart-we will give him a prize-maybe a trip to play place or a dollar theater movie....he suggested a rocket ship-we will have to see about that one-that is a pretty tall order:)

How is Katie doing in all the potty training madness?:She doesn't really seem to notice much accept she has taken an interest in some of the potty training "tools". She attempted to put the potty seat on her head-don't worry I told her ICKY ICKY and she repeated and dropped the seat on the floor:) And she tries to open and shut the toilet lid-but every once and a while gets her fingers stuck.