Potty Training: Day 1

So, I decided to really start potty training Evan today.

Evan woke up at 6:50am this morning. Before Morry left the house he got Evan out of his room and put on the TV in the game room so I could sleep a little more. Around 8, Evan came in the room and told me he wanted me to wake up and get out of bed. Noah got up around the same time.

My plan was to give him Cool-Aid all day. When I went to make it this morning, the container we had wasn’t good anymore. We went over to Walgreens. I thought we’d be able to get in out quickly there. Walgreens did not have Cool-Aid so we went to HEB and picked some up. Evan picked out the different flavors he wanted. Then, I let him pick out a bag of candy as a reward for each time he sat on the potty. Evan chose Gummy Bears. As we were getting ready to checkout I saw Evan’s shorts were wet. I changed him before we got back in the car.

Evan pooped and peed on the potty early on in the day, but the rest of the day he threw fits and had a lot of accidents. For more than 30 minutes over lunch time he was crying and throwing a fit because he wanted me to put a diaper on him.

I put a diaper on Evan for naps and then put underwear on again when he woke up.

Evan threw another crying fit this evening. He had more accidents. Then around dinner time during a fit, I just forced him on the potty and he peed. We made a big deal over it and he was very happy and asked to sit on the potty a little later and actually peed that time too.

I’m trying to decide what to do tomorrow. He has school tomorrow. I’m not sure if should continue with the underwear and potty training or just put a diaper on him for tomorrow during school. Either way, when he gets home we’ll go back to the potty training.

Well, it’s been a very long and tough day. I hope this was the worst of it.