three year old boys are just lazy! brayland has sent me in all emotional directions with this stupid potty training for almost four weeks. i wouldn't care and just keep buying him diapers but it drives me nuts that he is so big and i'm still changing him.
the potty store was short lived. it was a good stepping stone. he ran around for two or three days naked and went to the toilet, 1 & 2, every time. but i was so sick of him playing with himself! i can't tell how much this drove me nuts. i even went to lds.org and searched the topic. interesting. it calmed me--a little. i still couldn't stand it. but as soon as a pull up or underwear went on he went back to his easy ways. well, he happened to have done his thang on the doctor's office floor. this is a great story and amanda jinxed me. she shared with me a story of a little boy. when he went #2 there was the actual sound that said, "explosion!" so here we are, just brayland, amdon, and i the morning of amdon's 2 week apt. i thought giving brayland apple juice would make him pee more often. i had even diluted the juice. well, it made him pee more often and gave him liquid poo. great! i don't know why he would do well in underware that afternoon, but i put him in underware anyway. we get to the office and brayland is playing with the toys and i heard "explosion!" i did laugh for a split second because amanda just told me about that the day before. the laugh was short lived; i was completely overtaken by super mom. i was so thankful that we were the only ones in the waiting room. and amdon was happy in his car seat. i quickly and calm took him the the bathroom which was 2 feet away with the door wide open and cleaned him up. and the nurses came and clean it up off the carpet. it looked like chocolate milk. el gross-o. i did bring a change of clothes for the little pooper. he proceeded to pee another three times while there!!!!! again, i was impressed with myself that i didn't strangle him. i triuly think he did it to see me get all fired up. which i didn't! he rode home naked and fell asleep in the car.
so quick side story. at dinner i tell brian any funny or frustrating or interesting stories that happen during the day. well i'm telling him our explosion story and i'm trying to tell it so brayland doesn't know we are talking about him. so there is a lot of spelling going on to keep it hush hush. well, i started laughing as i tried to spell the word pee. come on, try it! spell the word pee without saying the word. he he. funny, huh?
so this week i know brayland can do this but how to get him to want to. i came up with another way to motivate him. we went The Parent Teacher Store and i allowed him to pick out a toy or two that he could earn if he kept his pull up and then his underwear dry. so yesterday he kept his pull up dry all day and he earned his marble game. and today he wore his new Mickey Mouse underwear and kept them dry all day!!!! all he needed was the right motivation. i just hope we don't regress. he is doing awesome!
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