Adventures in Potty Training

Lets start at the beginning...

On his second birthday Miles was the proud recipient

of his very own potty. We were very excited to

dive in and start the potty training game.

Then Mommy & Daddy got new jobs and we moved to SLC.

After that we lost our momentum.

Every couple of months or so I would tell myself,

"okay, Sarah, lets do this thing!"

But after a few conversations like this...

Me: Miles, do you need to go peepee?

Miles: Nope.

Me: When you feel the peepee coming

tell Mommy and we'll run to the potty.

Miles: Otay

20 second time lapse

Miles: I peepeed

and subsequently scrubbing the floor, the couch, and doing 20 bazillion loads of laundry

I would give up hope and ultimately decide that diapers are SO much easier.

We would occasionally have naked time, during which it was

discovered that Miles really could tell when he had to go peepee.

He would do so awesome when he was naked. You'd think he was peeing in the

potty all along. But alas, as soon as there were pants on that little bum of his

he instantly lost control of his bladder and was peeing all over the place.

AHHH. So we kept up with the diapers.

Needless to say, I was probably confusing the poor kid.

Well, last weekend I decided it was time. Time to really tackle this

terrible, awful thing called potty training. I decided that the only way

to do it was to quit diapers cold turkey. So we woke up on Wednesday

and said we wear big boy pants and peepee in the potty. The diapers have gone bye-bye (the plan was diapers only at sleep times since he still wakes up wet).

Miles was sick on Wednesday, so our plan was delayed until Thursday,

but it seemed to work. We only had two accidents all day and he

even went poopoo in the potty twice. Success (well the early signs of it anyway)!

Then night-time rolled around.

We put him in a diaper in case of any accidents, did the normal routine, and had him

in bed by 8:00 pm. Things were looking good. Then 10 min later I heard...

"Mommy I need to go peepee!"

Well, after a full day of telling him we don't peepee in our pants I couldn't go

marching in there and say, "it's bed time just peepee in your diaper and go to sleep."

So I took him peepee and put him back to bed. Ten minutes later I heard...

"Mommy I need to go peepee!"

This went on until about 10:30! I didn't know what to do.

So at 10:30 I took him to the potty again and told him that we put on a diaper to catch the peepee and he needed to just go to sleep and not worry about it. That's when he said,

"I tan't peepee in my pants. It will get in my bed and be all yutty."

I was at a loss, so after a little chuckle I gave in and rocked him to sleep.

I thought that was the end of it, but then at 4:13 am I heard...

"Mommy, I have to go peepee!!"

So we went peepee and I rocked him back to sleep.

can we say nightmare!?!

Has anyone else run into this issue while potty training?

Have I totally reversed all the sleep training I did two-and-a-half years ago?

Help!?!

On a positive note; he woke up dry and he is such a pro at potty time

that my assistance is no longer needed. He's pulling down his pants all by

himself and telling me he doesn't need my help.

what a big boy!

Now it's just the night-time issues.