Potty Training

So it's only day 2 of potty training Remington and I am already about to quit. Thursday night I finally convinced him that since he was a big boy now, the grown thing to do would be wear his big boy underwear. A few weeks before, I bought him some toy story underwear thinking it would get him a little more psyched about not wearing diapers anymore. Well, that was a complete fail. I took off his diaper and through a huge tantrum, I managed to put his underwear on him. As the tantrum continued, I tried to ignore him for a bit to see if my strong willed child would grow to like them on his own terms, well not 2 minutes after he had them on, he ran into the kitchen and peed on the floor. I'm assuming that he could not do it intentionally, but part of me wonders!

Anyway, back to day 1. We went to target to get a Cars potty cushion that sits on the toilet and some more underwear (Thomas the Train that he picked). He was pumped about sitting on his chair and wearing his underwear, so I was very hopeful at this point that he might actually catch on this thing pretty quickly. When we got home, he sat on the potty chair for nearly 20 minutes and didn't do anything, then 10 minutes later, he peed on the floor downstairs. I was mostly watching him for cues of him needing to potty, but he basically just was playing and all the sudden started peeing. Ugh! So, I tried again to make him sit on the potty before his nap time, but he still did nothing. After his nap, I put his underwear back on to try again. Made him sit on his potty, again, nothing. A little later, another accident. Dang! Ok try again. I noticed his acting like he needed to poo so we went and sat on the potty for almost almost 45 mins because I just felt like he needed to. We sat, and sat, and after about 30 minutes, a few drops of liquid came out. So yay, I went on to make a big deal out of that, even though it was not much at all. He told me "look, I peepeed!" I wanted to show him how proud I was of this, but still after about 10 minutes, that was all that happened. We sat on the potty several more times that evening and nothing else happened. Just before bed time, I made him sit one last time and he still did nothing. So diaper on, he went to bed.

Day 2, today, was not much of a success either. This morning I tried to get him to go after he woke up, but he probably had just gone in his diaper so nothing happened. around 9 I tried to make him sit on the potty, but he wouldn't go. Eden was napping, so I stuck a movie in for Remington and hopped in the shower for literally no longer than 10 minutes (this was right after I made him sit on the potty for about 15 minutes). When I came down, he had messed his underwear and peed as well. SO FRUSTRATING! I know this is like the only time I cannot really get "mad" at him for doing that since he most likely just doesn't understand completely, but I still made it a point (in my serious voice) that he needed to let me know when he needed to use the potty. "Yes ma'am" he says and goes on about his business. Little punk! Tried to make him go again before nap time, but nothing.

I'm going to continue to be as patient as possible, but I'm thinking that after either today or tomorrow, if things don't start 'clicking' then I will prob put it off until a little after his birthday.

Something I also should mention, I have a reason for being so detailed about this post. The first is for the same reason that I started this blog, so that as he gets older I can look back and remember these things that I would probably usually forget. Secondly, and more importantly, is for my readers to read this and see specifically my struggles so that if they have possibly been through this before, and might have any advice, can comment below and help a Moma out! Please do so if you feel you can help! I greatly appreciate you reading! :)

~Chey