Potty Time

This was the weekend.  The weekend we wanted to narrow down the diapers.  I have sworn to never have 2 in diapers (though our total child count may very well end up 2 so this might be the only time I'll have to worry) but I have been getting worried as time passes.

I will start by pointing out that the only potty-ing he has done in his Elmo potty was going #2 twice.  One was a looong time ago (like 18 months ish), and the other, probably a month ago.

I decided we would do full day on Saturday and Sunday.  To get him a little more eased into it, I put him in just undies on Friday night after work.  He got a pair a little wet so I was worried for our carpet this weekend.  Later that night he yelled "POOP" at Andy, who helped him open the potty and helped him pull down his undies, and Sawyer proceeded to pee enough to fill out like a third of it. YAY!!!  He got M&M's.

The next morning, we took the plunge.  We put nothing on his bare bum.  We made sure the potty was left open (he has a hard time opening it) and before we knew it, he had gone both 1 & 2 about four times each...and it wasn't even noon!  I think he was a little tummy sick because he normally does not poop that much in a day...normally just once or twice.  We had a small hiccup in the middle where a very small puddle ended up in the kitchen.

Sawyer discovered his potty is also a step stool, and would try to get in his chair when he was hungry.

At about 4:00 he had used it successfully all day (at least 12 times) and we needed to go out so we put a diaper on him and headed to walmart to get a new carseat.  We then dropped him off at grandma and grandpa's house with all the supplies because we had to leave him for a few hours.

The Buffalo Wild Wings is opening Monday, and they had a trial night Friday and Saturday.  It was invitation only, but the staff had stopped by my work and invited us and gave us tickets to the event.  We knew it would take awhile, but free food is worth it.  They had the Seahawks' Blue Thunder (drum line) and Seagals there.

We got there early, the place ended up completely filling up.   There is Blue thunder.

We could have a free appetizer, one entree each (one must be wings), dessert, and non-alcoholic drinks.  Any alcohol was $3 cash donation to a food back (needless to say, a lot of people left for the ATM across the street.)  It was VERY good, and really fun.  Me and Andy split the wings and split a hamburger.

That beast had pulled pork, lettuce, tomato, onion rings AND a hamburger patty.  The best part was this ENORMOUS dessert.  It was cinnamon sugar fried tortilla thing with 4 full-sized scoops of ice cream on top.  We did not finish it.

We got back to my parents house and found out Sawyer had successfully gone 1&2  two times each.  He did make a puddle on the floor in the kitchen, but my mom felt at fault because she didn't want him to follow her into the garage for a minute so she told him he needed to stay in the kitchen and don't move.  Unfortunately the potty was outside of the kitchen.


This morning was the same routine.

He had a few more successes, but unfortunately had a small accident on our carpet.  We acted very disappointed like they told us to, and explained he had to use his potty.  We made him clean it up.  (We weren't mad or anything because frankly we expected worse for the weekend).

Cleaning up.  We finally get to use the BabyLegs again!

He has used it many times since today, so hopefully those won't be common.  Overall, we are very pleased!  He is so proud of himself- he declares "I DID IT!" every time and looks so proud as he marches his bucket to the bathroom to dump.  We are going to keep with it, and hope Janelle is game to keep it going at her house.  We should be saving a fortune in diapers now that we will only need them at night (or if we go out).  I think I will get pull-ups so he doesn't think they're diapers.