Wordless Wednesday: Potty Training Pics

Morgan went to stay with Oma for a couple days and she and Blake talked on the phone about how potty training was going. Morgan was asking about his stickers, telling him well how good he was doing and trying to convince him to go poo! LOL! It was priceless!

Sporting his new undies

This morning's sticker count.

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Potty Time Tuesday: Poop!

Blake has been doing fairly well with potty training even though we are technically taking a break. He is still asking to go and actually pees on the potty at least twice a day. He even asked to sit on the potty at Grandma's house this weekend, but Grandma doesn't have a potty seat and being dangled over a big hole was not his idea of fun! LOL!

Yesterday Blake was actually doing really well. He went without a diaper all morning with no accidents, but I had to put a diaper on him for nap time. I didn't bother putting pants on him, but come to find out that was a bad decision!

Blake and Morgan tend to play a little before settling down to go to sleep. I know that they do and won't check on them unless there is crying or it has been a while and they still haven't gone to sleep. Well, yesterday they were not settling down, so I went in to check on them. When I opened the door, the first thing I saw was Blake halfway up Morgan's ladder with his little diapered bottom facing me and a brown streak across the back of it! :-(

My first thought was 'Oh no! What has that brown streak touched?!' I'll admit, it could have been worse-at least he kept his diaper on! But there was still poop on his pillow, his comforter, all over the toy chest that he uses to climb up into bed and it was also all over Morgan's comforter. (Remember he was climbing down her ladder, so he had been up in her bed too.) Yuck! I got what I could find cleaned up and my 3 load laundry day turned into a 5 load laundry day. (Six loads if you include the throw I had to wash the day before because he got pee all over it.)

I think this potty training thing has been more of a learning experience for me than it has for Blake. Maybe if I have Blake clean up the messes he'll learn faster!? No? I didn't think so. Good thought though, right? :-)

Blake's Potty Time

My little man has been sitting on the potty about once a day for a few weeks now. He hasn't done anything on it yet, but he is definitely getting more comfortable. He actually asked (by pointing) to sit on the potty 4 times yesterday. At first I thought Blake was really making the connection with his diaper being dirty and needing to sit on the potty, but by the forth time he didn't have a dirty diaper. Now I'm not sure if he was making a connection or just wanted the extra one on one attention and to be able to hold onto his toothpaste tube. (I don't know why, but he loves anything that resembles a bottle lately!)

For now, I'm going to continue with letting Blake sit on the potty when he wants to. He is still telling me when he has a dirty diaper and sometimes will show me that his diaper is dirty then point to the bathroom. I'm hoping that is a good sign?

On a similar note, Pierra at Jolly Mom is hosting a few potty training giveaways right now. One is for a Potty Monkey Potty Training System from PottyMD. The others are for potty chairs from BABYBJÖRN and Boon. Besides the giveaways, Pierra also has other product reviews and an interview with a Pediatric Urologist. Head on over to Jolly Mom and check it all out!

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It's a Potty Party!

Rockin' Mama is going to be having a Potty Party starting February 2nd, where she will be sharing articles, tips, interviews, product picks and giveaways! If you're going to be training your little one soon or are in the middle of potty training and need some advice and encouragement, just stop by Rockin' Mama!



On the same note, Pampers is giving away a Free Potty Training Kit for those of us who need all the help we can get! :-)

The kit includes:
*A free sample of Easy Ups Trainers
*High-value coupons
*Fun stickers & coloring pages
*Step-by-step potty training tips
*Potty Progress Chart
*Dora or Diego training trophy

I'll be potty training Blake this summer, so I'm looking forward to the Potty Party and the free Pampers to help the process! :-)

Wordless Wednesday: I know you love him, but really??

Morgan loves her puppy and does everything with him. She sleeps with him, reads to him, pretends to feed him and lately she even has to take him to the potty.

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