Xander Week 120 – We’re Potty-trained (mostly)!
June 24, 2009
If you’ve read my blog much lately, you’ll already know that we have been working hard to get Xander potty trained this summer. He moves up to the next room at day care at the end of the summer, and the goal is to be fully potty trained before he can move. As with every other milestone in Xander’s life, once he decided he was ready, he was completely ready and had no interest in going backwards (the same with walking, moving out of his high chair, sleeping in a big-boy bed, etc.) We didn’t expect potty training to be any different, and it wasn’t. While Xander was still learning the process, we used pull-ups at nap time and bed time. It wasn’t long before Xander decided he didn’t like the bulky feeling of the pull-ups, and refused to wear them at night. I was of course a little nervous at first, but resigned myself to washing extra bedding during the learning process. It turns out, I didn’t need to – Xander stayed dry that whole night, and every night since then. He’s stopped using pull-ups at day care as well! We are finally back to having only one kid in diapers. There are a few mornings when Xander has woken up exceptionally early needing to pee, and a few nights when he tries to prolong bedtime by asking to use the bathroom again (and again and again), but I think we’re about ready to call this potty-training project a success!
And now a YAY for Xander, I sometimes cannot believe how similar they are…Carver did the same thing, when he was “potty trained” during the day it flipped right into the night as well, I stopped using the pull-ups, but not as brave as you I had him in cloth training pants at night– for awhile. Don’t want to jinx myself- but tonight went better than the last two (on the Binky thing)..we’ll let you know!!….oh but his ENTIRE bed is piled high with every stuffed animal he owns!!!!
Congratulations to Xander!