potty update

So... it's been about a week and a half since I started this little endeavor. I must admit, I wanted to give up a time or two and if it were Tre I would have. I tried several times to potty train Tre, but with an infant breast feeding, the inability to just drop everything and run to the potty, and my patience running a thin line, I always gave up. Thankfully, it was easy once Tre made the decision and I could have cared less if he was two weeks shy of his 3rd birthday.

So... I officially started last Sunday. Sunday was fine. Monday was TERRIBLE! Tuesday was worse. Wednesday seemed hopeless!

I used M&M's to potty train Tre. He got three for pee and 6 for poop. I was trying the same for William and it just wasn't working. Then I remembered that he loves to get his haircut and the reason why was because our hair stylist gives him dum dum suckers. I sent my mom Wednesday afternoon (since I was staying home all day, all week long to focus on this... which was hard for me since I had to skip the gym, which I love, but that's going off the subject, anyway...) to get some and it seemed to work immediately. When she showed up at the apartment with them, he asked to go about 10 times in 20 minutes. I didn't care that he was getting so many suckers because I just wanted him to be motivated to try and get the feeling of the potty!

The next few days, he had a few accidents, but mostly stayed dry. He pooped in his pants for two days and then on Friday he actually asked to go! When I finally made it a week, he seemed to be really catching on, so I decided then that I am going to stick with it. Since Sunday, he's had one accident every day. I can deal with that.

Tonight I broke out a Hershey's bar and said he gets no more suckers for pee (he seems to have that down), but can have one small piece of chocolate (or a sucker) for poop. He asked to go poop about 10 times tonight and each time a little came out! I don't know if my idea was good. Poor guy was squeezing so hard, I was scared he was going to get a hemoroid! HA!