I explained to Max that we will start this upcoming weekend and we will take him shopping for undies. I told people about this and everybody asked me what our plan of action was. Hmmm...what plan? We have no plan. I don't think we need a plan. We will be fine. It can't be that hard. Max wants to do this. We will just see how it goes. I did go on to Amazon to purchase a bucket of 50 Hot Wheels as bribing material, but did not click the purchase button because I thought it's not a good idea. I mean, he will train with us all weekend and then go to Miss Marie's house on Monday where there will be no Hot Wheels to bribe him with. So back to no plan at all. Just a laid back attitude of we will see how this goes. I did have a Cars themed toddler toilet and a seat for the adult toilet so that he could choose which one he wanted to use. I know Max can be picky sometimes so we just wanted to make sure we were covered for whatever worked with potty training.
We were shut-ins all weekend. We did nothing, but hang out with Max and the toilet. We made the decision to not have any plans this weekend and focus solely on Max's potty training. Plus, who wants to leave the house with a potty training two year old? I was more in fear of him having an accident in Target than anything else...so we stayed home.
On Friday night we made a big deal out of shopping for undies. We took Max to target so he could pick out whatever kind of undies he wanted and he chose Thomas the Train (kind of an odd choice since he doesn't watch this show, or at least not at our house) and Paw Patrol undies. Max was so excited that he played with his undies the whole car ride home. We made a big deal all night long about his undies.
Day 1: Saturday
Come Saturday morning Max was so excited that he woke up at 6:15am to get his new undies on. He only wanted to wear Thomas undies...and so the weekend begins. This day started out brutal. After the excitement of putting on his first pair of big boy undies it went down hill. I cleaned up so much pee and we went through six pairs of undies by 11am that I was starting to lose my mind. I didn't know what to do. I started to question the laid back attitude towards potty training and that maybe I needed a plan. I was beginning to realize that this is not a "winging it" milestone. I needed to get it together and put together a plan...ASAP. It's too late for the 50 pack Hot Wheels I was going to order on Amazon, but didn't. Then Andy got home from the grocery store and picked up Froot Loops and jelly beans (he had a dad moment where he thought we might need them with potty training). He saw that I was stressed with potty training so he stepped in to give it a try. We then put Max down for a nap wearing his nap time undies (aka pull ups). During nap time Andy and I regrouped and we approached the afternoon with a plan...a plan that actually worked. Max got to pee on the colorful Froot Loops when going to the bathroom and received jelly beans afterwards for a reward. This started to work, but unfortunately Max was all wired at night due to the sugar high he was on. That's ok though, because he was starting to get the potty training thing.
Day 2: Sunday
Now Sunday was a new day with new attitudes...more positive attitudes by Andy and I. We started right away with the big boy potty and peeing on the Froot Loops. He would get excited to "pee on certain colors." We would then pump him full of sugar with the jelly beans. Sunday was a very good day because he only had one accident and it was because he walked away to his toy room to poop. He then came back into the kitchen with a load in his pants. That was the only accident. Sunday was a very good day for everybody and we all kept our sanity.
I took Max to Miss Marie's today with a bag full of supplies for her...extra undies, extra shorts, a bag of Froot Loops and five pair of pull ups for nap time for the week. Andy picked up Max this afternoon to find out he had no accidents. He was completely accident free today. We are so proud of him.
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