Anyone else potty training and want to share the highlights of the journey?
We're on a crash course to get this thing done asap and it's an interesting thing so much so that there is a lot of opinions about how it should and shouldn't be done. We're just winging it, much like we've done the rest of our parenting only to find out it has a name: attachment parenting, co-sleeping, breastfeeding.
Well we've been loosely practicing EC with our 18mo DS since he was born, but now we have a 2mo DD and double duty at the changing table is wearing me down. So toilet training is in full swing at the Russell house. We have mostly wood floors minus the large wool area rug in the living room which seems to be pretty much water resistant. Today we did the first FULL day with no diaper. He's been using a little potty since he could crawl but it was interesting to see how the BM would go. Of course after several attempts to use the little seat on the toilet and the little potty to no avail, legs squeezed and whining resulted in a successful corner squat. All those years of cleaning up after my dogs paid off. We put the poop in the potty and made it clear that's where it goes. And trailed it off into the real potty for it's decent into the underworld of sewage. He flushed maybe 3 times while I was cleaning the potty in celebration of his latest accomplishment. Maybe tomorrow he'll go in the potty.
We're on a crash course to get this thing done asap and it's an interesting thing so much so that there is a lot of opinions about how it should and shouldn't be done. We're just winging it, much like we've done the rest of our parenting only to find out it has a name: attachment parenting, co-sleeping, breastfeeding.
Well we've been loosely practicing EC with our 18mo DS since he was born, but now we have a 2mo DD and double duty at the changing table is wearing me down. So toilet training is in full swing at the Russell house. We have mostly wood floors minus the large wool area rug in the living room which seems to be pretty much water resistant. Today we did the first FULL day with no diaper. He's been using a little potty since he could crawl but it was interesting to see how the BM would go. Of course after several attempts to use the little seat on the toilet and the little potty to no avail, legs squeezed and whining resulted in a successful corner squat. All those years of cleaning up after my dogs paid off. We put the poop in the potty and made it clear that's where it goes. And trailed it off into the real potty for it's decent into the underworld of sewage. He flushed maybe 3 times while I was cleaning the potty in celebration of his latest accomplishment. Maybe tomorrow he'll go in the potty.
)
He usually points to it and says 'uh oh'. He hasn't had any bm while nakey. He brings me a diaper and won't go until it's on. Util yesterday. He pood on the deck, stepped in, walked across his outdoor kitchen, then peed all over it. The kid was on a roll! It was his first time pooing without a diaper, so I choose to take it as a victory. We cleaned it up and he loved cleaning his kitchen with disinfecting wipes. I loved it until he decided to eat them. I guess it's a learning experiance for both of us. 
