Potty Training

With the baby arriving just within a few weeks, we decided it's time to get serious with potty training. Before Dylan turned 2, we bought a potty for him just to get him familiar with it. Dylan has been great with telling us when he's made ka-ka or pee-pee. He'd even get his own diaper and tell us to change him. He has also gone in his potty a few times, but nothing consistent.

According to our pedi, Dylan has been displaying signs that he's perhaps ready to be potty trained. Most of the time, boys aren't completely potty trained until 3yo. Our plan for now is to give this a try for the next five days... and our Pedi said, if it doesn't work, it means he just isn't ready and give it another go in the next couple of months.

In our ideal dream world, Dylan would be potty trained before the baby joins us.

Day 1:

This morning, Mommy decided it's time to officially start potty training. First thing in the morning, Mommy told Dylan that he has to tell Mommy when it's time to go pee-pee or ka-ka. Mommy took off his diaper and pants - 'bomba' (as Dylan would say) for the whole day!

The potty was moved to the hallway so it's easier for Dylan to get to. At first he had a little bit of an accident which he immediately reported, but after breakfast, he walked to his potty and peed!!! (yay!!!). Every 10 minutes, Mommy would asked if he needs to go to the potty, and he'd always say no. He did have a couple of tinkles around the house but he would always tell Mommy. Then later that day, when Daddy came home, he peed in the potty again -wooohooo!!! (this time it was outside since they were putting up halloween decorations. Yes, we brought the potty outside!!!). So, we'd say for the first day, he did pretty good!!!

(Note: Although we were not supposed put a diaper on him once potty training starts, he did wear a diaper during naptime because we didn't want him to wet his bed. For nighttime, we bought his pull-ups which hopefully wouldn't confuse him).