Jason's potty training....
Jason is proving to be quite a bit different from Jilly in so many ways. One of the most surprising is that he has been asking to go potty since before Kayla was born. We decided after she was born and he turned two, we'd give him a shot at potty training. My philosophy was if he caught on and trained, then WAHOO! Only one kid in diapers! But if he didn't, then no biggie, I wasn't planning on potty training until 3 anyway. So I waited until we had a week without anything going on and decided we'd go with the naked method. It was what worked with Jilly, so I thought it'd be a good way to go.
Monday morning, we got up and took off his diaper, not replacing it with anything else. Throughout the day, I set an alarm for every 30 minutes and took him to the frog potty each time it went off. There were a few successes which were awesome, but there were puddles to clean up too. Over the next couple days, he would go when I took him, even pooped once, but there were a lot of messes to clean up. It didn't seem to be getting much better. So after Thursday, I decided to be done. He wasn't progressing enough, so I decided to save us both the hassle and stress. We'll wait until he's a little older. For now, he's in Pull-Ups and almost every time we change it, we take him to the potty and 95% of the time, he pees in the potty (even though he still pees & poops in the Pull-Up).
I'm glad we tried it. It gave me more insight to where he is at developmentally and what his capabilities and limitations are. He's growing and talking SO MUCH these days (new sentences every day), it can be easy to overestimate him. All that said, I don't think it will be long until he's ready and I think once he is, it will be an easy process. I think it really helped (same thing with his speech) that he's grown up watching us really coach and teach Jilly; he's soaked up a lot of those lessons. He's such a cute little boy.
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