The Voss Family: The time has come

to Potty train Brayden!!! He has been intrigued with the potty for a longgggg time. But, I knew he wasn't ready. Honestly, I wasn't ready. Over the past few months I have been researching ideas and reading up on the how to's and coming up with a plan. I bought big boy undies about 2 months ago and we have been talking about them. A few weeks ago, I decided it was time (I am pretty sick of changing 2 kids diapers) and I was going to start getting him and myself ready. I printed a potty train chart that I found on pinterest, I bought some rewards, candy, salty snacks, and lots of yummy juices and chocolate milk. I told him when we get back from Legoland he was going start using the potty and we were going to hop on the potty train, "poo poo". I was overly excited about it, but hey, he was ready to get on board.

So Monday morning, we watch a a few videos that I found from some potty training apps and I set the "I'm a big kids now" alarm to go off every 30 minutes, and we learned the "potty dance". I ask if he was ready to be a big boy, he said yes, and we took the diaper off....... HE FLIPPED OUT!!! "I need my diaper, don't take it" as he ran around holding the very wet nightime diaper in his hand. Not how I planned. I told him to chill out and we were going to give it a shot. He got a squeeze it and popcorn (that is the treat we wanted) with his breakfast, and I waited. When the first alarm went off we went in the bathroom. Nothing. A few minutes later he went on the floor. I had him sit in the potty and we talked about how we can't do that on mommy's floor cause that is what we do on the potty. He was not a big fan of the big potty, so I took out the little potty my sister had given me. 30 minutes later, "mommy, I gotta go", and that he did. #2 ! Wow, I am amazing at this! OK, lucky!!

The rest of the day little naked butt ran around and only had an accident when we woke up from his nap (too lazy, I think) and while he was too busy watching cartoons while I made dinner. Day 2 had 2 accidents, and Day 3 none! It has been crazy, but he has caught on really quickly, I usually don't have to ask, he has typically been telling me. And the last 2 nights he has woken me up twice cause he needs to use the potty. He has never been and great sleeper or eater, I think the Lord new I needed something to be easy with him so I wouldn't sell him! ha! I am so proud at how well he has been doing, even went to the zoo for 4 hours this morning with out any accidents. He has even earned his first reward for filling the train, he sure goes a lot in one day, I swear we spend most of our day in the bathroom. Best part of all this, his cute booty in big boy undies..... SOOOOOO cute!!!

End of Day 1, almost to his first reward