Potty Training in Just One Day

Really? Is this it?


Liam went all day yesterday with dry pants. Not only that, he ran himself into the bathroom to go. He'll hold his pee if I tell him to go, but if it's his choice - he goes.

This morning he pooped in the toilet. With some tears/fears, but really, not that bad. He didn't want to poop in his diaper. Didn't want to poop in his pull-up. Really, he just didn't want to poop.


Could we be finished? He went all morning with dry pants and again, went into the bathroom when he needed to.


Last time I did this I swore the method of "one day" was a joke. It took six days to get us to this point. I think Liam is almost there.

Tomorrow we venture out of the house so we'll see how that goes. Of course, we going to a friend's house and we'll be bringing our own potty. Who would have thought 10 years ago that we'd be going to a New Year's Eve party that's BYOP?

The Poop That Looked Like Curious George

Last night it took an extra 40 minutes for me to get Liam down for bedtime.

He had to poop.

I knew he had to poop.

He knew he had to poop.

And since the windows were open, I'm sure the neighbors knew he had to poop.

To make a long story short - Liam spent about 30 minutes complaining and trying to decide where to put this poop.

He wanted to poop in his diaper, he didn't want to poop in his diaper. He wanted to poop into the toilet. Oh no way, he did NOT want to poop into the toilet. He wanted to poop into the big toilet like Quinn. Oh no way, he absolutely did NOT want to poop into That toilet. He wanted his diaper back on. He wanted it off. He wanted it on. Off. On. Off. Oh so help me... all this with the whining and the holding of his butt and the crying.

Finally, I gave up. Put his diaper on and started rocking him and singing to him. Except, he still Has To Poop.

And the poop started coming and he started screaming.

No poop! Stop! Wait! Toilet!

So we went into the bathroom.

He wanted to sit on the toilet, he did NOT want to sit on the toilet. And so...

He stood there, with me holding a diaper under him, while he pushed his poop out right into the diaper.

And then I put it into the toilet where Liam laughed and said, "looks like ooh - ahh - ahh!" Which means, "it looks Curious George!"