Today, late in the afternoon, my not-potty trained 3 year old tells me that he has to go pee pee. HUH? I run into the bathroom and get out the seat cover for him and plop him onto the seat.
"Can I have some juice please?" he asks knowing that this is what he will get if he sits on the potty. We have attempted to potty train before and failed, but he wasn't ready. We plied him with juice to get him to pee. He eventually peed. On the carpet.
I race downstairs for the juice and bring it back to him. I then plop my butt on the child foot stool to wait for that pee. Maybe he will pee I think. Maybe I will get lucky and he will miraculously get it.
"Thank you mommy. Can I have the Bernie toy?" He says pointing to the tub.
"It's Eeeernie. Here."
"Where's your guy?"
I reach over and retrieve the Diego bath toy. I hold it up.
"Hi, my name is Diego. See my nice rescue pack?" I say in my best Diego voice.
"Hi! I'm Bernie. I like to swim!" he says again calling Ernie Bernie.
"Do you have to pee?" I ask the boy.
"I don't know how (pronounced haaaow)." he says with a sad little voice. "Show me how mommy"
"Uhh." Crap! How do I explain this to a 3 year old? "You just let the pee come out when you feel it down there." I point to his wee wee.
"Poop falls out of your butt!"
"Yes it does" Trying not to laugh.
"Pee falls out of my pee pee."
"Yes. It does come out your pee pee. You push it out."
"Like this?" He pushes really hard like he is going to poop until a toot comes out. He looks at me and smiles. "I tooted!"
This all transpired just before dinner. He peed 4 times, in his big boy cotton underwear. The fully padded ones that are not plastic so they leak. Cooking dinner, stopping to clean up pee, cooking, cleaning, cooking,cleaning and so it went. He didn't pee in the toilet once and dinner was late.
I have read about this 3 day method of just getting rid of the diapers all together. I know. You are probably thinking that I should know this. I have done it twice now. I am an old pro. The thing is, I forget and each kid is different.
Anyway, I am not going to put any diapers on him. It is going to be a rough few days. I hope this 3 day method works and that he is potty trained in 3 days. I went out and bought 12 more pairs of underwear.
Oh boy. Better put on my patient hat tomorrow.
Wish me luck! I am going in!
Sep 6, 2008
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