Day Two started out at 12:30 am, when I was awoken by a sleepy Felix walking into my room, whining and saying, "Mommy! Wet!" Ugh. Judging by the fact that his sheets were bone dry, I can only assume that he woke up feeling like he had to go, so got up to get me, but didn't make it. Poor guy. I felt so bad for him - he was so sleepy, and so uncomfortable. We were both able to get back to sleep, eventually, and I heard him stirring this morning but stupidly did not get up too, and so the same thing happened again. Double ugh. It wasn't fun, but it was nice to know that he was getting up each time, so not only did I not have to change sheets, but he is recognizing that he can't go in his bed.
After that fun start, we had a great rest of the morning. We had only three accidents, two of which could have been prevented had I been watching - one time I was out of the room, and another time I was changing Asher's diaper. Other than those accidents, we had 11 successful #1 trips, and 2 successful #2 trips before nap (he still has a bit of that stomach bug from yesterday, which he lovingly passed on to his brother).
The big news of this morning was that he took the initiative to go to the potty BY HIMSELF once! He felt the need, found the potty, sat down, and went! (Luckily I walked back in the room right as he sat down, because he neglected to pull down his underwear!) I definitely count this as a huge victory for Day Two!
Nap time was also a great success - he slept for almost three hours, and was dry when he woke up. I was waiting for him to wake up this time, so I took him right to the potty and he went. We had a total of 7 successful #1 trips after nap, with only one minor accident at the dinner table. I can't blame the kid for not wanting to leave his yummy dinner (yogurt/strawberry/banana/broccoli smoothies; veggie chicken nuggets) to use the potty - but when he started to go on his chair, he looked down and immediately stopped, and I was able to get him on the potty to finish. Not too bad!
The big news of the evening was that he finally said the word "potty" to tell me he had to go! We were about to go to bed, and I thought we'd better try one more time to avoid a repeat of last night, and so I said, "Felix, do you want to try to use the potty again?" He looked at me, said "Potty!" and started heading for the bathroom. He again tried to sit down with his training pants on (we'll work on that next!), but I got them down and he went! He then demanded a Cars sticker for his chart, as well as a piece of candy, so I think he knew it was a big deal :) Hey kid, you can have as many stickers and gummy bears as you want if you keep that up! I am so not above bribery...um, I mean positive reinforcement...
So, to recap, the stats of Day Two are:
Successes - 20
Accidents (day) - 5
Accidents (night) - 1
Of course, I realize that most of those successes just mean that I read his body language better today (which is why I keep saying "we" had success, and "we" had accidents). But, even without those great numbers, I would be flying high today - he showed two great signs that tell me he is well on his way to being potty trained!
Day Three, here we come!
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