A potty training champ you are! Only a few days and you seem to have the art of going potty on your little Elmo potty down pat. We are quite proud of your BIG accomplishment.
Before we started the training days, I bought you a large reward chart to put stickers on. I found some Jake and the Netherland Pirates stickers and just knew you would love to receive these as prizes. Daddy bought you a bag of M&Ms so that you could have 1 candy each time you used the potty. And so it began...
Just as with Addie, you watched Elmo Potty Time and then went to the potty for the first time. I believe you and Daddy spend a lot of time in the half bathroom that first day, but by the second day you were running in to PEEEEE every few minutes. How much pee can one little boy have? Thought I guess it gave you many opportunities.
Daddy also taught you that you should just "tap" once or twice, but not more than that!
Some of my favorite potty training phrases have been:
1. Aim down (this is to remind you to aim down so that your pee stays in the potty and does not go outside)
2. Tap tap (to get the remainder drops off)
3. I got pee! (you say this as you run to the potty)
4. Stream! (while you are peeing, you call it a stream)
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| Posing in front of your reward chart at the beginning of day #3 |
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| Looking quite handsome on the big potty at Church |
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| Look at all of the successes - not many sad faces (at the bottom) |
July 2014 Update - Now we just have to get you to want to pull back up your pants when you are done. We often hear, come help me! Pull "me" pants up! We have to work on this because you don't want to be the preschool child who comes out of the bathroom with your pants around your ankles. :-)
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