Golden Pig Tales

It is a lesson I can best teach Ezra and did when Ezra asked for help to know how to stand and pee.

So I told him to take the seat off his toilet, and then told him to aim the pee into the big red bowl of his toilet.

I taught by example because I need to pee, and I stood and peed into the big toilet.

All the pee hit the bowls.

PS - This is Ezra’s mom. And  for the record, I was the first person that got Ezra to pee standing up.

PSS - This is Ezra’s dad. And for the record, I searched Golden Pig Tales for you bragging about this, but couldn’t find the entry.

Since the last weekend from hell, we’ve made such great potty training progress that I feel like everything’s been better! Less stress over cleaning up pee = more fun for everyone. SO I think that this may in fact have been the best week ever…after we got past the incident on Monday where he peed on the floor at the kid gym and we didn’t have any extra pants so we had to carry him crying out to the car to go home. But since that day Ezra has done such a good job with using the potty. After Ezra’s first couple of poops as a baby, I never thought I could be as excited about a bowel movement as I was about the big one he put in his little potty today. It was like the most awesome thing ever. There were other things about this weekend that were fun (the camp-out in the living room, waffles, the park, the tadpole pond) but that poop made this the best weekend EVER!

All I needed to do was to ask about peeing every five minutes and talk to him about his potty and what kind of potty he would like every few minutes and rush him to the bath room twice when he said he needed to pee. I think the first attempt I made him too nervous as we rushed to the bathroom. The second time I convinced him to sit a few seconds longer on his potty and relax. Then I heard the sound of pee, and Ezra smiled. And I felt a great relief.

Ezra went to preschool today wearing underpants. He had one accident at school. When I went to pick him up he was wearing new pants and new underpants. I tried to get him to go to the potty before we left preschool but he wouldn’t. We got home and went to the basement to get popsicles, and when I turned around he said he needed new underpants. So, we changed the pants and got new underpants. When we were getting ready for bed, Ezra sat on the toilet for about 10 minutes, but no pee. So now that he’s in bed wearing only his underpants, I am wondering, will he or won’t he pee?

Tonight was Ezra’s second pee in the potty. This time I was there to do the pee-in-the-potty dance. I was there for the spilling of the pee into the toilet and to watch Ezra’s pee flush down the toilet for Ezra to say, ,,Where’d it go?”

Ezra asked to sit on the potty tonight after I had put him in his crib to go to sleep. He sat down on the potty for about 20 seconds, then got up and wanted to put his diaper back on. So we did, and he went back to bed. Then about 5 minutes later, he wanted to sit on the potty again. This time, he sat on the potty for about 2 minutes, when all of a sudden, I heard the sounds of pee pee in the potty! We were both very excited and we turned on the big light in the room and I did a pee pee dance and Ezra got up and pointed to the pee pee in the potty and said “I did it!” I was sad that Kalab was not there to see it, but I did take pictures. The jubilation turned to tears after about 10 minutes though, when we had to figure out what he wanted to wear. And then there were more requests to sit on the potty with no results. So, now, while I am excited about Ezra going potty in the potty for the first time, I wonder if bed time is going to end up getting stretched out longer and longer, because now he could really have to go potty!

This morning was the first morning Ezra woke with the want to be taken to the potty to pee. Though he did not pee in his potty because, as he said, the potty was, ,,Cold. Cold,” he did try.