Potty Training

We have been working with Peyton on Potty Training for a long time.  It started at 19 months. One day out of the blue he comes in and says I need to go potty.  I thought OK this should to be good. So we went into his bathroom; low and behold he went. I was amazed! I told Corey all about it. I guess Corey had been talking to him about it.  So over the next week, Peyton used the potty. He only used diapers at night time. Well that was easy, I thought. We bought unders just like his best friend Weston.

Then a few weeks later he had an accident on the couch in his unders in front of company. He was horrified.  We tried to tell him that it was not a big deal, but he refused to have anything to do with potty training. He was so embarrassed about wearing diapers that we had to put unders over his diaper if any one came over or if he went somewhere. 

Every couple of weeks we would try again, but he was just not interested and would cry about it. I really wanted him to be potty trained before Anni was born, but it just didn't happen. The doctor said that boys usually don't potty train until they are 3. So we just dropped the topic for a while.

So this summer, we tried again. Peyton would only go potty for his Dad. Then he found out the his new friend Drew used the big boy potty. For some reason that made using the potty OK to try again. So we tried again. 

 Corey and I used potty training using baby steps. Little by little he started using the potty more and more. We started by just at home. Then we progressed to at home with others around. And finally in public. 

We are proud to say that the little man is potty trained a month before he turned 3! Corey and I are thrilled. We thought the day would never come. He acts like it is no big deal, but still like us to come and check out his business in the potty.