Almost a month since I blogged last... again *sigh.* Life gets crazy.... especially with potty training. Oh, boy. We were told by daycare that Lucas was going on the potty there. They asked how it was going at home "uhm... not." I was really putting it off. He's not even three yet! I figured I had a few good months to procrastinate ;)
Well, I figured if they had started at daycare, we had better get on the ball as well. I really didn't think he was interested at all. I guess all I had to do was put him in some underwear, though! We started him in underwear last weekend, and it went really well! I was so shocked! I thought I would be cleaning up urine all day at home, just like I do at work (and at least I get paid to do it at work haha!) ;) Apparently I just don't know my son. We only had one or two accidents the first day, and our second day (Saturday) we went shopping and out to eat, where he used the public potty twice and didn't have an accident at all! Success!!
Going #2 on the potty was a different story, however. Saturday afternoon and Sunday (diaper at church), I realized the actual use for our handheld shower head. Glad we got that a few weeks prior! He also tends to sit on the potty and pee through his underwear lately. We still give him a Swedish fish for it since he realized he needed to go, but that doesn't help the underwear laundry :/ So today, I finally couldn't keep up with the clean underwear, and we've ran out. So he's naked. And it's working well! He went poo on the potty this morning! (He's gone a few times in the potty, but more often than not it's in his underwear :/) Maybe we'll just keep him un-underweared when we're at home!
We're trying to slowly get Via used to it, too. Girls train around two years, right? She's 18 months now. I figure if she can see Lucas doing it we could start the idea now. We may actually be out of diapers before we have the next kid haha! If all goes according to plan we should actually be out for about a year before the next one shows up. At any rate, our diaper bill is now cut in half!! No more diapers for Lucas! He does use one at night, but that's only one a day compared to 6ish. And he has quite a few left from our last $80 diaper excursion.
We also moved both kids to a toddler bed. We just took the side down on Via's crib. Lucas had an actual toddler bed waiting for him, so we took his crib down a few weeks ago. Via does great at night! Lucas. does. not. I'm not sure what else to try. I lay down with him, and he just wiggles. Then I get so frustrated. Last night I had to literally pin him down to keep him in bed. He just fights me. He wants Dad. Then Dad goes in and he wants Mom. He's not napping during the day when he's at home ( I think he still does at daycare). We've tried taking away privileges, Benadryl, wearing him out during the day, letting him read in bed while it's still light out... I don't know what else to do! I'm losing my mind every night I have to put him to bed. I don't want to put him back in the crib because I think that would inhibit the potty training by making him feel like a baby again. But this kid was up 'til 2:30 in the morning the other night! He just won't go to sleep. Do we just lock him in his room?? I have no idea... So that's the bedtime scoop. I'm losing it haha!
All these changes actually gave poor Lucas stress hives for a few days :( He's doing much better now. They haven't come back since I posted it on Facebook lol! I guess that was the cure. Things will get better with time, right?? These kids will be grown before I even realize it. I just have to remind myself of that sometimes! It's just so much easier to cherish the moments when they're sleeping in my arms instead of screaming in my ear ;) Love those cuties. At least I get paid in kisses when I have to clean up urine (and more) at home!
The best solution I've found for Autumn (and now Tori) for them to go to bed (and to sleep) on their own is to have music or white noise playing in their room (on a low volume setting).
ReplyDeleteSome times I'll have to rock Autumn for a while to get her "uninterrupted mom time" in, but I can live with that.
Do you have a consistent bedtime routine with the two of them?
Do you put them down separately, or together?
I've found that the consistent bed routine (brushing teeth, reading a book or two, saying prayers, and goodnight hugs/kisses, sometimes followed by rocking) has made bedtime so much less of a struggle for Autumn.
The hardest part for me was getting to the point of not going back into her room if she cried/made noise for at least an hour (I know that seems like a long time - but that hour of crying/noise making dramatically shortened after about a week when she realized that I wasn't going to change my mind about not coming in to see her again after bedtime routine).
Good luck cuz!
Thank you so much!! Turns out bribery and privileges work :) It only took two days for him to catch on that if he didn't go to bed nicely, he didn't get to ride his bike, watch Tv, play with the iPad the next day. He has been going down wonderfully the last few nights *knock on wood*! We do have a solid bedtime routine, and then one of us will lay with him for a bit and sing or read to him a little while longer. Gets the "me" time in. Love the white noise idea! We may need to add that, too!
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