Potty Training Day #3

It's only 12:18 p.m., but so far no accidents today!! WooHoo!! :) (Knock on wood!) He hasn't told me everytime he has to go, some of it has been initiated by me, but at least he is going on the potty! He also hasn't asked for a treat or sticker everytime he has gone, I think because he is in too big of a hurry to get back to what he was doing. If he doesn't say anything about either of them, I don't either..especially the candy HaHa.. but I am keeping track of the stickers that need to go on his chart for him so he can pick out his prize when he fills up all the boxes (which should be soon)! I figure I will just give him those when he remembers or asks for them, that way he is also getting used to the fact that going potty is just a fact of life and that we aren't always going to get rewarded for it..not sure if that is correct thinking or if I should keep making sure he gets stickers and treats right now or not?! Guess we'll find out if my thinking about that is a mistake.

Still didn't wake up with a dry diaper, but I figure we will work on that after he's conistently going potty during the day. I don't really know what to do with the nighttime training anyway, because how do you teach them to wake up if they need to go? Just have to really try to limit liquids and encourage going potty a lot before bed I guess?! We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but right now I'm more focused on the daytime.

I'll update at the end of the day in this entry with how he did all around! :)

**Quick update, while I was typing this Noah ran out of the room, and I just had a feeling he was going to hide so he could go poop, because that's what he does when he poops, hides and tells you to go away. I ran and got him and put him on the potty, not without a fight. I kept telling him that he could do it and I would help him, that we go poop in the potty just like going pee. He kept fighting me and telling me to go away, so I told him to sit down on his little potty (for some reason he was worried about falling in the big potty this time). I told him I would go out, but he had to sit on is little potty and go poop. I left the door cracked and stood by the door and he got up off of it and was counting animals on his chart (HaHa!), so I opened the door and reminded him to sit down and go poop because we didn't want to poop on the floor. So he sat back down and I went out again, this time I came and sat on the loveseat. After a few seconds/minute or so, he opened the door and told me he had gone, and sure enough he pooped in his potty! He didn't ask for a treat or sticker, but I made sure this time to make a huge deal about it and give him two stickers and two treats...because that has been our deal all along, as I have known that pooping on the potty was going to be the really difficult thing (I've attempted to get him to do it before and it seemed traumatic to him). I made sure to tell him, see you did it, you can poop on the potty just like you go pee on it, and he seemed to believe me!..for now. ;) He was pretty proud of himself, and I am extremely proud of him! :)
-Only downfall is, when he was getting ready to wash his hands he had a little accident, apparently he still needed to pee, but we just changed his underwear and went back to wash our hands and get him his stickers and treats for going poop. After we went back to playing he kept holding himself, so I made him (well he didn't fight me, he went willingly) go back to the potty and sit and finish going pee, and sure enough he did have to go a little bit more. So, so far only one accident today..but the big/huge thing is he went poop on the potty!!

Probably seems so gross and weird to some of you that I'm talking so openly about bathroom activities, but I think once you become a mom you don't give it a second thought, it's just part of what's going on in your life so it doesn't seem wierd. I mostly am typing it all out because I want to record the details of potty training so I will know for next time how things went, otherwise I would spare a lot of the details. ;)