Okay, so I KNOW this... I really do... and yet...
Here's the essence of this lesson:
Don't ever... EVER go outside while your 2 year old is on the potty "making a big poop".
The story? Okay, so Monkey is pretty much potty trained, he has night time accidents and once in a while he has them during the day, but he hasn't pooped in his pants in months, and I like that. Every night we have a struggle with him, he just has a hard time getting calmed down. Frequently he uses needs to have a bowel movement just after bed time, and it's legitimate.. he really goes.
Tonight was no different. He had to potty, daddy let him go (I was at the grocery)... I got home, he announced that he was making a big poop... daddy went outside to take care of some things in the yard... I stepped outside to sweep off the porch while he finished his work in the bathroom. No problem, the door was open, I could hear him through the screen.
I hollered in to see if he was done, he didn't answer - that's a bit unusual. So I put the broom down and stepped inside to check on him. I found my sweet son bent over on the bathroom floor with the roll of toilet paper at his feet, trying to clean poop off of the floor. Ugh. As I got closer, I noticed it was not merely on the floor, but all over the seat, on the wall, on a tub toy that had gotten on the floor, the shower mat which was rolled up by the potty...
Oh my... mama kept her calm and cleaned up the Monkey, then put him in a diaper (no underwear tonight since he's displayed he has a belly ache)... and grabbed the disinfecting wipes... THEN when Mr. Preschooler continuously refused to go back to bed.. well.. mama lost her cool.. Monkey cried...
So, now you know.. never ever ever leave your 2 year old alone while he is on the potty!
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Learning with two
As I write this blog, I am wearing a hard hat. Not because the subject is messy (but it is.. REALLY messy). I am wearing it because my sweet 2 year old thinks it's a good idea to wear hats this morning. He is gaining so much independence these days that it's hard to keep up with him. I'm not sure where it started, getting the milk out of the fridge, turning on the upstairs light, picking out his own clothes... this boy is his own man!
Independence is only a small part about what I set out to write about today. I really wanted to write about potty training with 2. I suppose a lot of people do it, but many of them have twins, I don't. When Monkey was a baby, I told him that as soon as he started walking, we were going to start using the potty. He started cruising at 7 months and decided not to walk until he turned a year old. I'm convinced it was just because he didn't want to sit on the chair! Now he's 2.5 and we're still working on it, more consistently now than we were even half a year ago. He wears underpants all day, every day.. and refuses to leave a BM in the potty. Normal, I know. Messy and annoying also, I know he can do it, he was doing it 4 months ago, then he got sick and a well-intentioned mother put him in diapers while he was sick, so he stopped.
Crackers just turned 1, he doesn't walk and is not really motivated to learn right now, he really does not even care to stand very long. (His therapist is pretty sure it wears him out and wants to get orthodics to help with that). Anyway, I decided that I would work earlier with him, we started putting him on the potty for a few minutes at a time when he was about 9 months old, and wearing cloth diapers more. That's a silly statement, maybe, but we've done cloth off and on since Monkey as tiny, and I really prefer it, I just get lazy sometimes. Also, from everything I've read, it tends to be easier to potty train cloth wearing babies than disposable wearing ones. Crackers likes to sit on the potty and play. He's even had BMs a few times on the potty (which makes mama REALLY happy).
Monkey is mostly using the potty, as long as mama reminds him. Crackers loves to sit on it, but mostly doesn't use it. I'm okay with that, like I said, he JUST turned 1, we don't expect the same independence.
Pottying is hard work!
What worked, or is working for you? Do you have any funny stories? Monkey decided to try standing the other day, he stood on top of the potty and went.. what a mess!
Independence is only a small part about what I set out to write about today. I really wanted to write about potty training with 2. I suppose a lot of people do it, but many of them have twins, I don't. When Monkey was a baby, I told him that as soon as he started walking, we were going to start using the potty. He started cruising at 7 months and decided not to walk until he turned a year old. I'm convinced it was just because he didn't want to sit on the chair! Now he's 2.5 and we're still working on it, more consistently now than we were even half a year ago. He wears underpants all day, every day.. and refuses to leave a BM in the potty. Normal, I know. Messy and annoying also, I know he can do it, he was doing it 4 months ago, then he got sick and a well-intentioned mother put him in diapers while he was sick, so he stopped.
Crackers just turned 1, he doesn't walk and is not really motivated to learn right now, he really does not even care to stand very long. (His therapist is pretty sure it wears him out and wants to get orthodics to help with that). Anyway, I decided that I would work earlier with him, we started putting him on the potty for a few minutes at a time when he was about 9 months old, and wearing cloth diapers more. That's a silly statement, maybe, but we've done cloth off and on since Monkey as tiny, and I really prefer it, I just get lazy sometimes. Also, from everything I've read, it tends to be easier to potty train cloth wearing babies than disposable wearing ones. Crackers likes to sit on the potty and play. He's even had BMs a few times on the potty (which makes mama REALLY happy).
Monkey is mostly using the potty, as long as mama reminds him. Crackers loves to sit on it, but mostly doesn't use it. I'm okay with that, like I said, he JUST turned 1, we don't expect the same independence.
Pottying is hard work!
What worked, or is working for you? Do you have any funny stories? Monkey decided to try standing the other day, he stood on top of the potty and went.. what a mess!
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