Day Four

I was hoping that last night we would have a little more progress. After nap I took Tyler out of his diaper (which was wet) and went bare bottom some more. He didn't have any accidents, but didn't go in the potty either. We had errands to run so we put him in a diaper where he went both number 1 and number 2 without a word to us about it.

Today we had to go to church. I woke Tyler up this morning and he was completely dry! We sat on the potty for about 10 minutes but he once again didn't go. About 5 minutes into breakfast he started saying all done and trying to get out of his seat. He then started to pee. Since he has yet to go in the potty I put him in a pull-up for church. Now I personally think pull-ups are just glorified diapers, but I didn't want to bring 10 extra pair of pants either. Tyler treated the pull-up as I thought, just like a diaper. He does call them underwear tho.

When he woke up from his nap after church (the boys fall asleep on the way home) he was still dry! I put him bare bottom and we played outside. After about an hour or so (and 3 separate trips to just try to go potty) Tyler starts crying. He was peeing all over the deck and was scared to death. I tried to explain to him that it was o.k. and this is what peeing is. We discussed how next time we would run and go into the potty. I was thinking we had turned a corner, maybe this would be a light bulb moment - nope.

Justin was home with Tyler and he had another accident right before bedtime. He didn't say a word and started crying after he had already started. I got him some covers to put over his underwear for when we are out and we are having a friend over tomorrow who just got potty trained so maybe that will help. We have decided we will keep at it til Sunday and if he still hasn't even gone once in the potty we may hold off again.

We both think he is totally ready - he has all the signs that he is. If he just went in the potty once we think he would get the hang of it, its just getting that one success that we are stuck on.