7:30 - Evan woke up and we had some breakfast.
8 - Changed out of jammies and started to sit on the potty. For over an hour. I knew that it would take him a while to pee since he had probably gone as soon as he was awake, but I didn't want to have him just playing and then pee, so I sat him until it came. Well, we sat there for an hour and 15 minutes. He would get up here and there, but then he'd come and sit back down. We read, sang songs, put pieces into a puzzle, pushed a dump truck back and forth...it's amazing how he knows how to scoot around on his little potty without getting up. He was over all pretty content.
9:15 - He gets off his potty. He walks over to the oven and does something I have never seen him do. He not only touched, but pushed in the knob/dial for one of the burners. I clapped my hands together to get his attention and told him "no touch". And then it happened. Out came a nice long stream of pee. So then I was faced with a decision. I didn't want to scold him for peeing since that's what I'd been trying to get him to do, but I didn't want to praise him for going on the floor, either. So I did something in the middle. I excitedly told him that he was peeing, but that it goes in the potty. He seemed to know that he hadn't peed where he was supposed to since he didn't clap or anything like he normally does when he pees in the potty.
9:16 - I cleaned up and put his 'big boy pants' on. He played for an hour and I wrote thank you notes for Christmas gifts.
10:20 - Back on the potty, this time only for about 3 minutes! He peed right away and we clapped and praised him and he was so excited!
10:30 - nap time with a diaper on...and he woke up dry 90 minutes later!
12:05 - After he so nicely peed for me, a big full potty-full, we ate lunch. Sometime during this time, he peed (to be expected, I think), and I'm very thankful I had put the plastic cover on over his underwear! For some reason, I thought it would be good to pump him full of fluids...mistake #1.
1:15/1:55/2:15 - he wet himself while playing. At first, I just thought, "ok, so I need to put him on the potty sooner after he finishes lunch. no big deal". The second time around, I thought, "hmm...ok, maybe we need to go to 30 minutes instead of 45", the third time, I realized maybe 20 minutes was the magic time...
2:30 - on the potty just in case he peed before the 20 minute mark, and bingo, he went within minutes.
2:55 - On the way to the potty, as in, we're about to sit down and the potty is only a mere 2 inches away...he pees. Not sure why this happened. Maybe it was because I was talking about it. Maybe it was a fluke. I don't know, but I'm not counting it as a full-on accident, that's for sure.
3:00 - Nap time for him with a diaper. Down time for me -- away from the kitchen/dining area. The plan now is to go back to letting him drink like normal, which is NOT as much as he's been drinking this afternoon, and try to sense his schedule from there. The whole on-the-potty-every-20-minutes thing is not going to go over very well. At least not until he gets a better grasp of what 'the urge' feels like!
4:45 - Woke up wet, but that was ok. We chilled for a little bit (he wakes up slowly) and then..
5:00 - Sat on the potty. Had to wait a bit just like this morning. But...
5:20 - He peed!
5:30 - Since he was 'empty', I decided to go ahead and feed him (with the plastic pants on, again!) He ended up staying dry (partly due to the fact I didn't give him liquid until after he was done with his meal....
6:10 - Back on the potty.
6:30 - He peed!
7:15 - Back on the potty for one last time...
7:20 - Out came the pee!!
Total Score: Accidents: 4. Times on the potty: 6. Halfways ("accidents" that ended up making it in the potty): 2
Overall, I would say today went well. The Lord was good and I didn't get frustrated. Let's hope this keeps up...it is only day one. I learned a lot, was totally blown away by how well he did for the first day -- I wasn't honestly expecting him to pee in the potty at all today -- and realized what makes him 'go'(as in, when he's surprised, he pees). Today was just supposed to be a day of figuring out what his little rhythm was, and I think I've found it -- 45 - 60 minutes. For us, pumping him full of fluids isn't going to be the way I go. I'm going to treat the liquids as though it were any other day, but just put him on the potty every 45 minutes. It worked this morning and this evening just fine, so that's what I'm going with for now.
Another thing I learned was that when Evan had an accident, he would stop peeing once I either made a sound or he realized what was going on. This was insightful for 2 reasons. It showed me that he could stop his stream, and it also clued me into the fact that he wasn't totally emptying his bladder - hence the multiple accidents one right after the other this afternoon.
Some things that were really helpful today:
- Knowing ahead of time I would be in one area of the house and leaving things for me to do in that area to keep me busy
- Having only a few toys out for today and then changing them out for tomorrow so they're all 'new'
- Only looking at a few books at a time while on the potty
- Getting really creative for the sitting on the potty time
- Charting our progress!! I can't stress this enough. Each child will have their own natural schedule and it's best to go with that. It will also be nice to see patterns day after day, and be able to took back and see how far we've come!
- Charting when he drank - doing more of this tomorrow!
- Charting the amount of pee by L, M, or H (Low, Medium, High) to clue me into how much he's gone and if he has fully emptied himself. IE: all the times he peed on the potty, he peed a lot - that's an "H". All the accidents were very small - those were all marked as "L".
- Soup week!! I knew when I would be starting to train (generally speaking) and so I've been doubling soups I make for the past 6 weeks and putting the other half in the freezer. makes dinners really easy when there's not a lot of time to make it!
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