Get in your bed and....wait

Man, I should have followed my instinct on this one and not let the boy wear big-boy pants during his nap. I walked into the room and thought there was a familiar yet unpleasant smell. He was squatting on the floor drawing on his etchasketch. So I asked Dylan to get back in his bed. He started mumbling something that I couldn't make out because he still wears a pacifier when he sleeps. I found out the source of the smell, and what he was trying to enunciate through the popo, with my hand.

So we walked/waddled to the bathroom. We started taking his underwear off and "it" fell on the bathmat. He finished going to the bathroom, got cleaned up and went back to his room to make another attempt at a nap.

I didn't learn my lesson. I'm hoping that by putting on a new pair of big boy pants it will give him confidence to keep trying. The rationale being, he's already pooped, how could he possibly poop again.

Since the last post he is only wearing diapers during naps and at bedtime, and the results have been very good. I'm thinking since the 12th maybe 5 accidents and of those primarily #2's are the issue.

The Potty Update

The last week has gone very well. We're still having the occasional accident, usually once a day, and he's getting much better at communicating the need to go potty. More times that not, he realizes he has to go potty because we ask him and from what I've read and found out through conversation, that's the way it goes for awhile. Does that mean we are rushing?


Today marks the first day that we ventured out of the house without a diaper on. We went to the grocery store, delivered Trudi's grocery order and went to open gym without an accident. We just finished lunch, went peepee in the potty and went to sleep with a diaper on.

Success!

I feel alittle like I'm pushing him. I'm not sure who's more nervous about an accident. I'm nervous for him and don't want to be looked at as a novis parent(which I am). But, he definitely doesn't like going in his pants. So, who really needs there expectations checked? It comes down to the fact that I don't trust him to communicate when he has to go, so I probably ask him too often.

At one point at every destination Dylan said he had to go potty. He only went at the Warner Park Rec center and at home before his nap. I'm beginning to think, because I ask him so much, that he is confusing his own signals. Mostly because I'm becoming neurotic about the first public accident.

For the most part, I'm overreacting and going through normal parent anxiety. I'll probably take a picture or cry when it happens.