Thursday, January 14, 2010

If I had known this was all it would take..

We attempted to potty train Aidric a looong time ago, but without success on the "pooping" part. He has always been more than eager to pee on the potty, but seemed afraid of anything more. I read a blog post somewhere about a week ago that talked about the idea of "poop presents". Basically, a basket of small (cheap) wrapped presents in the bathroom to incite interest and motivation. I decided we'd try this next....maybe in a few weeks or even after we'd moved into our new house.

Aidric woke up from his nap on Sunday with a dry diaper though, so I asked if he wanted to wear underwear. And from there, he has ONLY wanted to wear underwear. I ran out during nap time Monday to get some "poop presents" all ready for him. (He'd had an accident that morning).

I am soooo proud of him right now!! Since Sunday, he has had 3 accidents TOTAL! I know we're not in the clear yet, but he's doing great!! So far, he's opened the "bouncy bouncy ball" and a John Deere tractor that is not pictured b/c it's actually a leftover Christmas present we never gave him. If I had known it would take just a basket of dollar store goodies, we would have done this a long time ago!


6 comments:

Richard and Sarah said...

ahhhh, christmas in the potty! yay for the big boy. so excited that he and gracie will share potty time! :)

Kate said...

that is AWESOME!! We're still struggling w/ the pooping part.....*sigh*. GO AIDRIC!!!

Mallory said...

i am totally trying that!

Jennifer said...

Staci - thanks for the tip. i'm going out today for our poop presents!

Jennifer May said...

Thanks for the tip! I'm going to go out today to buy our poop presents.

Karen said...

I forgot that Amber did that with Ella. Sorry, I have to remember those important tidbits.