Potty Training Success!

I was putting off potty training Micah as long as I could.  We had a big move and a brand new baby all within about 12 days of each other, and potty training was just not on my agenda.  Micah had shown some interest and I could occasionally get him to sit on the potty.  He would rarely do anything on it but if he did we always made a big stink about it.  His cousins Cole and Noah were both potty training and I kinda felt like Micah should be too.  I had received some advice from a friend with 5 children.  She said that she struggled training her first child and he finally trained himself around the age of 3.  All 4 of her other children did the same.  So I thought, "I'll just wait until he's closer to 3 and then we'll get him trained".

Micah has been waking from naps and nighttime dry for some time now.  One day he'd gone from 12:00-5:00 and was still dry when he woke from his nap.  This child had to go I was sure, so we sat in the bathroom for about 2 hours playing and reading books.  All of a sudden he looked at me, ran to the potty, sat and peed!  Yippee!  We made a huge deal of it, gave him a handful of M&M's, and then called it a day putting a diaper back on him.  I still didn't think he was really ready to potty train.

Well the next day he refused to put on a diaper, and we started potty training in full force.  He was a trooper. He picked out a pair of Mickey Mouse undies and we were confined to the playroom the rest of the day with the potty nearby.  I'd read a blog about potty training in a day and it truly worked!  Check out her blog for details of this method.

http://www.themoesfamilyintexas.blogspot.com/search/label/Potty%20Training

Basically we stayed home for the first 3 days.  Micah really had it down after the first day and a half.  We drank lots of juice, set the potty timer for every 15 minutes, ran him to the potty whenever he did go, and kept the potty close. We rewarded him immediately with M&M's and Dum Dum suckers and he got to choose his treat of choice.  We called different family members to share our successes.  We did a happy dance to celebrate each time he went potty, and we made it fun to run to the potty.  We had luck letting him go bottom free, and he even went on his own the first day! I was in shock!  After the first 2 days we moved the potty back into the bathroom and it didn't seem to confuse him. I heard little boys were hard to train.  He's been so difficult with other things like eating and throwing temper tantrums that I think God is giving me a little break.

We've had some accidents here and there, but overall it's been a success!  He's never had an accident on the furniture thankfully.  We're going on nearly 3 weeks without an accident (knock on wood).  I'm so proud of this little boy!  He's growing up so fast!