Potty Training Day 1

We decided to take the time and start potty training Will before Baby Luke arrives. He will be 3 years old on the 19th and we decided to take a dip and see what would happen. He has been showing us the signs and telling us he peed and pooped in his diaper so we thought it was time to try. We loaded up on M&Ms and Skittles for his reward.

We started this morning after breakfast and started wearing our big boy underwear. I was reminded by Doug that boys don't wear panties after I kept calling them panties. Sorry!! 

We started off with trips to the bathroom every 15-20 minutes just to get him used to it. We loaded him up on orange juice and water and made him drink sips every few minutes. After about 5 trips to the potty every 15-20 minutes and nothing happening I decided to make some tea because that usually runs right through him. After about waiting another 20 minutes and drinking some tea we didn't make it to the potty and had our first accident in the floor. So we decided to do every 10 minutes to the potty. Again we didn't make it 10 minutes and had another accident on the floor. After 5 accidents total on the floor, 5 pairs of undies and lots of tea, we FINALLY got our FIRST pee pee in the potty and Will was rewarded with 5 M&Ms and we sang and did the happy dance and acted like fools because we were so excited!!!

And then we thought wearing undies on our head would be fun! 

He took a nap in a pull-up this afternoon for about 2 hours and the pull up was dry after nap time and then when he got up had a great pee pee in the toilet. 

Potty Training Day 1 has been good. After our first pee pee in the potty we have had NO accidents since then. He even tried to poop in the potty tonight but didn't quite make it happen so thats a work in progress. All in all it has been better than I thought it would go! We will see what tomorrow brings. 

Good job sweet Will we are SO proud of you today!