Our lives are all about potty training around here again lately. This time it is sort of two-fold.
Will isn't ready to train yet, but he is starting to show some interest. He started pointing to his diaper and then the potty late last week and has started to want to sit on the potty periodically. We figure this is a monkey see, monkey do sort of thing. Kenzie does it and "Dizzy" aka Sissy is the coolest person in the world so he wants to be just like her. Plus? He seems to know something about his diaper is associated with that potty. We started sitting him on it before baths and if he asks any other time. He hasn't actually gone yet, but eventually he might and then we will go from there. We also broke out the old on-the-floor potty and we will start putting him on that since it will be more comfortable for him.
We did this same sort of thing with Kenzie starting around 18 months. It was a comfort building thing and I sort of credit some of that with what helped her potty train around 22 months. She knew what it was for and was giving us all the signs that she was ready. I'm so thankful to be seeing those with Will already. I have been dreading the whole potty training thing with him, but maybe he will help me out a bit with this. I know that kids will throw you for a loop though so I am not banking on it. I will be pleasantly surprised though. I wouldn't hate it.
Really though, our potty training expedition around here actually involves night training Kenzie. I have heard (and read) that night training is a lot of biology. Her little brain has to register at night that she needs to potty. About two weeks ago she started to get really concerned that she wasn't waking up dry and she started to tell me how much she wanted to wear undies at night instead of the usual pull-ups (that she only wears to bed) because she is a big girl. However, she isn't waking on her own. So, after requesting some insight from some other mommy friends, I was given the recommendation to take her potty at night before I go to bed. Um, okay. It actually isn't the first time I have been given this advice. I guess I just needed to hear it from more than one person. So, I figured we would try it.
The first night, I almost gave it up. She went potty, but she woke up too much and couldn't get back to sleep. I'm glad we stuck with it though because now, about a week and a half later, she wakes up enough to say hi to me and then I carry her to the bathroom. She goes potty, I carry her back and she goes right back to sleep. Also, she wakes up dry! About 95% of the time, at least. This scenario also lends itself to the mot hilarious quote of the day from Steven... "Don't forget to urinate Kenzie tonight." Now, we just refer to it as "unrinating Kenzie." That success was enough to make her really happy though and start asking more and more if she can wear undies at night.
So, after some more discussion with some mommy friends, Steven and I decided that we would layer her bed. Waterproof mattress pad, sheet, pad, sheet, etc. She has two layers right now. I'm hoping to not need more than this. It involved purchasing way too many mattress pads.... though they get plenty of use because Will is in a crib with the same mattress. Also, their mattresses are already waterproof. I didn't realized how important that might be one day until now. Plus, a pack of pull-ups costs abotu the same as the mattress pad... so in the long run, we are saving money. Now we can put her in undies and if she has an accident, we just change her, strip the bed, and have another set of sheets underneath ready to go.
This should be interesting. I remember potty training her and looking back now, it wasn't too bad but it seemed so terrible in the moment. I'm trying to approach this as a less stressful thing because she is much older now and I don't want to stress her. We are going to build on successes and not penalize mishaps. Wish us luck!
Will isn't ready to train yet, but he is starting to show some interest. He started pointing to his diaper and then the potty late last week and has started to want to sit on the potty periodically. We figure this is a monkey see, monkey do sort of thing. Kenzie does it and "Dizzy" aka Sissy is the coolest person in the world so he wants to be just like her. Plus? He seems to know something about his diaper is associated with that potty. We started sitting him on it before baths and if he asks any other time. He hasn't actually gone yet, but eventually he might and then we will go from there. We also broke out the old on-the-floor potty and we will start putting him on that since it will be more comfortable for him.
We did this same sort of thing with Kenzie starting around 18 months. It was a comfort building thing and I sort of credit some of that with what helped her potty train around 22 months. She knew what it was for and was giving us all the signs that she was ready. I'm so thankful to be seeing those with Will already. I have been dreading the whole potty training thing with him, but maybe he will help me out a bit with this. I know that kids will throw you for a loop though so I am not banking on it. I will be pleasantly surprised though. I wouldn't hate it.
Really though, our potty training expedition around here actually involves night training Kenzie. I have heard (and read) that night training is a lot of biology. Her little brain has to register at night that she needs to potty. About two weeks ago she started to get really concerned that she wasn't waking up dry and she started to tell me how much she wanted to wear undies at night instead of the usual pull-ups (that she only wears to bed) because she is a big girl. However, she isn't waking on her own. So, after requesting some insight from some other mommy friends, I was given the recommendation to take her potty at night before I go to bed. Um, okay. It actually isn't the first time I have been given this advice. I guess I just needed to hear it from more than one person. So, I figured we would try it.
The first night, I almost gave it up. She went potty, but she woke up too much and couldn't get back to sleep. I'm glad we stuck with it though because now, about a week and a half later, she wakes up enough to say hi to me and then I carry her to the bathroom. She goes potty, I carry her back and she goes right back to sleep. Also, she wakes up dry! About 95% of the time, at least. This scenario also lends itself to the mot hilarious quote of the day from Steven... "Don't forget to urinate Kenzie tonight." Now, we just refer to it as "unrinating Kenzie." That success was enough to make her really happy though and start asking more and more if she can wear undies at night.
So, after some more discussion with some mommy friends, Steven and I decided that we would layer her bed. Waterproof mattress pad, sheet, pad, sheet, etc. She has two layers right now. I'm hoping to not need more than this. It involved purchasing way too many mattress pads.... though they get plenty of use because Will is in a crib with the same mattress. Also, their mattresses are already waterproof. I didn't realized how important that might be one day until now. Plus, a pack of pull-ups costs abotu the same as the mattress pad... so in the long run, we are saving money. Now we can put her in undies and if she has an accident, we just change her, strip the bed, and have another set of sheets underneath ready to go.
This should be interesting. I remember potty training her and looking back now, it wasn't too bad but it seemed so terrible in the moment. I'm trying to approach this as a less stressful thing because she is much older now and I don't want to stress her. We are going to build on successes and not penalize mishaps. Wish us luck!
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