I made a post awhile ago stating that we had begun the toilet training process. Abram said that I made it sound like he was already toilet trained. He was not. We had just begun. We had bought him a toilet but we still had to get Reagan used to the toilet. It took several tries to get him to want to sit on the toilet without a diaper on. When we finally got him used to the idea nothing would end up in the toilet. Occasionally we would get a mess on the floor but nothing in Reagan's special chair. We decided not to push him and let him tell us when he was ready to toilet train. He still loved to sit on his toilet though.
Then a week came where Reagan had a little problem. He had a little pain in his belly which moved to him bum. He knew what he had to do but couldn't get it out. He was in pain. He came to me crying and grabbing his bum. I figured his diaper was dirty and it needed to be changed. That wasn't the problem. He needed help getting it out. I decided to sit him on his toilet to see if that would help. Soon enough Reagan looked down and saw that he had made something magically appear in his toilet. This happened a few more times. I thought that maybe this meant that Reagan was finally ready to be potty trained. I was wrong. For a couple more weeks nothing happened again. We decided to give up on the idea again.
Then on Friday night before bed Reagan came up to me pulled on his diaper and said "Pee Pee." He then said "hand" letting me know he wanted to hold my hand so he could show me what he wanted. He brought me to the bathroom. So I decided to let him try using his toilet. In just a minute or two something appeared in his toilet. He knew he put it there. He was so happy and proud. Since then he has used the toilet several times. He has only asked to use it once or twice. Most of the time I have to ask to get him to go. I am sure we still have a long way to go before he is toilet trained. It does seem like he is on the right track this time though.
Now to the toilet training injury. It probably isn't what you are thinking. To help Reagan get excited about toilet training we have been giving him a treat after he goes in the toilet. I didn't have too many treats on hand. The only thing I could think of giving him was fruit snacks. While Reagan ate his fruit snack I put a load of laundry in the washer. Reagan soon came to me crying. He was pulling his hair. When I got a closer look I noticed that he had placed one of the fruit snacks that he had already had in his mouth on top of his head. It was really stuck in his hair. I tried pulling on it to get it out. The hair was too wrapped around the fruit snack. I thought it was it was funny and was laughing. This frustrated Reagan even more. He tried to pull it out too. He realized that it hurt when you pull your hair but he wanted it out. I was eventually able to get the fruit snack out of his hair without pulling too much hair out. As soon as I got it out Reagan grabbed another fruit snack and tried to do the same thing again. I guess no more fruit snacks for him for awhile.
awesome.
ReplyDeleteLuckily that is the only injury Reagan got. I was afraid maybe he fell off the toilet. He is just lucky it wasn't a green fruit snack.
ReplyDeleteSo glad it wasn't the potty training injury I was first thinking of...
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