We’ve been talking about this potty thing for quite a while here now and in the past few days my mom basically figured it out for me. This past Fri. night she was here and took Noah outside (at the advice of her friend from work) and let him pee in the yard. They did this without me knowing and came in to announce that he peed. Then he wanted to pee over & over in the yard. It was hilarious.

So the next day I left to go on my girls’ weekend with my friends and my mom calls me the day she has Noah. She tells me that he’s gone basically all day without peeing or pooping in his diaper and that she’s gotten him to sit on the potty & go! I have been trying to get him to go in his little baby potty and he just was uncomfortable. We tried the training pants and that didn’t work so much (although we gave up after about half an hour and 3 wet sets of them!). So we had gotten the Baby Alive doll to try out after his 2nd birthday. Well, now I can officially take the doll back because he’s basically potty trained! I came home and now we’re just continuing with what my mom started. I’m going to go tomorrow and get the little seat thing that goes over the normal toilet so he can sit on that & go easily enough without us having to hold him on there.  We take him in there about once an hour and ask him to try & go… and he does! We do a big celebration after every successful time and give him a little candy or treat (going outside, watching a video, whatever). And we don’t get upset or make him feel negatively about Not going in the potty.

I think what we’re going to do now is keep the normal diapers on and continue doing what we’re doing until those are gone. Then when they’re gone, we’ll use the training pants most of the time and keep a diaper on for naps & night time.

I have to say, I’m SO excited that my mom took the initiative to just “try it out” and “see what happens”..  I was all paranoid about a normal toilet b/c we’re going on a road trip in a month and I want him to be able to use the little travel potty we bought. We’ll see how that goes… I’ll probably get the travel seat cover thingys that go on public restrooms too, just in case! And of course we’ll have diapers on at that point, too b/c it IS a long drive.

Anyway, I’m ecstatic, refreshed, and am feeling pretty good about all this! My girlfriends gave me a new outlook on a couple of things and it was a much needed break for us all. I’m feeling better than I have in the past few months, even though this nausea seems like it’s starting to really take over But it’s nothing I can’t handle!

We’re getting ready for Noah’s party on Sat.! I can’t believe he’s going to be 2.  I think we’re heading into a happier season this Spring/Summer. Hopefully the pregnancy will go well and not be too incredibly hard. Noah’s having a ball outside, things are blooming, it’s getting warm again and I’m feeling better spirtually and mentally. *sigh*… it’s about time! All I can say is Thank You God!