When I picked Bay up from daycare last night, his teacher told me that in the Sr Kindy room, they don't supply nappies like they did in the other rooms, and she offered to start working with me in getting Bay toilet trained. I had been thinking about toilet training a lot for the last 6 months, and while I have encouraged him to sit on the potty from time to time, it never really got us anywhere. He grew to be comfortable on the potty which was great - when it came time to toilet train Zay we had a fair bit of trouble even getting him to sit on the potty - but he just never did a wee and I didn't want to push him as I feel it is important for little ones to be 100% ready.
So after some thought I decided now seems like a good time to get started; Bay complains that his nappy needs changing as soon as he soils it and is interested when we use the toilet, especially when his big brother does and he is at the point now where he understands his bodily functions.
The daycare help is extremely important in this as he is there four times a week. We hope that the other children using the toilets there would encourage him to use the toilet too.
Today is Bays day off daycare so after dropping Izzy and Zay at school, Bay and I took a trip to Big W to buy his first ever pairs of jocks. He wasn't really interested while at the store however when we got home and I pulled them out of the packet he was instantly excited and started taking his pants off. After selecting the perfect pair (grey with little cars that say 'beep beep' and 'vroom vroom', Bay put them on and was just so proud if them.
He tried standing at the toilet first but that wasn't working for him even though he was busting because he had to stand on his tiptoes (the stool is just a tad too high to be used at the toilet) and I believe that he just wasn't relaxed enough because after running back to the toilet and trying for the fifth time in 5 minutes he finally decided sitting on his cool Disney Cars potty would be the best plan and he did a wee straight away.
We have only now been home for an hour and he has already done a wee on the potty twice! The first time was his first time ever!! Woohoo!!
He's now laying on the sofa looking like he's going to go to sleep, this toilet training thing is exhausting for little ones!
Well I think it is pretty safe to say that it is going rather well so far! So proud of my mini man :-D
Yours in this crazy world of parenting,
Sami :-)
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