Crash & Burn

Well, there's comes that dreaded time in every mother's life...that inevitable evil that must be faced...potty training. Although Luke is now 3 and definitely old enough to conquer this task, I'd normally be in no rush to attempt this but he starts preschool the first of September and he has to be potty trained in order to go. I'd much rather deal with diapers for a few more months and wait until he says he's ready than clean up accidents on my carpet! But here we are just over 1 month away from preschool so we have no choice but to try this thing out. You'd think I'd know what I'm doing since he's my second but the truth is, Karina did it completely on her own. I told her that I'd give her this cute canopy bed for her dolls (garage sale, $2, thank you very much) if she started using the potty. And seriously, that was it! She only had 2 accidents and then was set to go (including night time). So I was spoiled on kid #1. I wish it was that easy for kid #2. Unfortunately, it's not looking like the odds are in my favor.

Brandon took Luke to the store to buy his very own big boy potty, as well as 2 really cool action figures that he can have as soon as he goes pee or poop in his potty. We spent most of the afternoon today on and off of his potty but nothing happened. He was getting a little bored so I decided to juice it up a bit. I brought the potty in front of the TV and told him we could watch a movie together. I sat him on his potty, gave him a couple juice boxes and turned on Finding Nemo. Every so often I'd ask him if the pee pee came out and he'd say no. Finally, the movie was nearing the end and still no pee pee. I asked again and he again said no. I had to go get something in the garage and he wanted to come. I figured it would be no big deal going comando for less than 1 minute so he came out there with me. We came back in and went back to the potty but when I went to sit him on it I noticed the very bottom of his shirt was a little wet. I asked him if he went potty and he said yes. I started to feel all over my carpet trying to find the mess but I couldn't find it. I asked him where he went and he said "out there" and pointed to the garage. I told him to show me and he walked me right over to his pee pee corner and proudly said "see, right there". I made sure to not get upset because I hear I'm supposed to make this whole experience a positive one for him, so I pushed aside what I wanted to say and just said "oh, that's okay. I'll clean it up and we'll try again on your big boy potty." I put a diaper on him and went out to clean the first of I'm sure many messes. When I came back in I decided to move the potty back to it's place since it was getting close to bed time. I looked inside the toilet and while I was in the garage Luke had got a few of his animal toys and disney figurines and hid them inside. I'm not sure if Luke is really understanding the purpose of this thing :)