The Potty

Apparently it's that time.
Yall know that I am usually behind on transitions with the kids because (a) I don't like them and (b) we have had great success thus far with letting them take the lead and show interest.

Enter the Big Potty.

one night at Community Group a few weeks ago, one of the little girls ran upstairs and exclaimed that Lincoln was in the bathroom and had take his pants and diaper off and was trying to use the toilet. I ran down to find exactly what she described, and proceeded to set him on the toilet and let him do his thing. Then when he was done he goes "I wanna wash hands."

Okay.

Funny thing is we've never worked with him on this.

Since then, he randomly tells us he needs to pee-pee, and when he does, we do the same setting-him-on-the-toilet(mind you, backwards) routine. We don't do it every time, just when he asks so far. I call this the "introduction phase".

Now, when he went to stay with his g=parents last week, God bless them, they kept with it! They even bought him a training potty that sings to him when he succeeds.

This week, we've added something: rewards. :)

But Lincoln's easy...he gets a stamp on his hand when he uses the potty and you'd think we gave him a hundred dollar bill.

Sunday, he pooped in the potty for the first time! Then later on that day, I could tell he was doing #2 in his diaper, then he caught himself and yelled "Mommy!! I got to potty!!" So I sat him on the potty and he finished his stuff! He got double stamps for that.

Anyway - that's where we're at. I haven't read a darn thing on potty training yet so we could be completely going about it the wrong way...who knows.

I'd love to hear your stories of what worked for you. (well, your kids). :)