Xander, Emilie and Baby #3

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< > June 2008

• Mon, Jun 30, 2008 9:44 PM

  I'm REALLY hoping this doesn't jinx things! Xander has been wearing underwear since Friday evening!!
  
  [The heavens part] ALLELUIA!!! ALLELUIA!!
  
  We've been making him change into a pull-up when he sleeps (naptime and at night) but otherwise he's in undies the rest of the day!! And he's been doing fantastic!!! He's actually doing much better than when he wears a pull-up. It seems to be a safety net for him. If he knows he has it on, he pees in it. If he has on undies, he knows he has to run to the potty.
  
  Over the now 3.5 days, he's had 2 accidents of the liquid type. And they're just as much our fault as his--we didn't get him to the potty soon enough. We've been making him go every 45min-1hr and that seems to be working pretty well for him.
  
  He's even running with clenched cheeks to the potty when he has to go #2, which has been a continuous struggle with him. Normally he runs and hides behind the couch or goes to another room to try to hold it in. To combat this ongoing problem, he's still taking his fiber supplement once a day and we don't see that going away anytime soon. That just adds to the fact that we couldn't be more thrilled or proud of him when we see him run in to the bathroom!!!
  
  One of his biggest motivators to ditch the pull ups was being told that he had to be wearing big boy underwear to get to go to his Tummy Bunny lessons (a tumbling class) with his buddy Alli. They start on Wednesday, July 2. Although it's not true, it seemed to be the final push that he needed. Don't get me wrong, he didn't ask to stop wearing them; Mommy told him he was done and was only wearing undies from now on. We've tried that before and 3hrs later and 3 puddles later, we scrapped the effort. This time he finally seemed to be ready!!
  
  And to top things off, Miss Em has become interested lately!! Probably 2mo ago now, she wanted to start sitting on the potty. We thought it was cute, but we'd strip her down and try to set her on it anyway. But she hated that! She'd go completely rigid. We think she was scared of being so high off the ground and nothing much being under her fanny. Still trying to take advantage of her interest, we bought her a potty chair (the idea of her using it still grosses Daddy out!). At first, she was reluctant to sit on it, but now it's fun for her.
  
  Lately she's been telling us more and more that she wants to sit on the big potty. We still haven't found her a potty ring that suites her (only sports, no pink) so we may be shooting ourselves in the foot. Especially since twice she's told Mommy she wants to sit on the potty, gets scared (?) and gets off, then stands beside it and pees on the floor. After sitting on the potty on Saturday, we put her in one of Xander's pull-ups before naptime and she woke up with four out of five spiders in the front!! Okay, so that may be a bit unfair if boy and girl pull ups measure liquid in different places but still impressive at 20mo (FYI—Xander is 3yrs 3.5mo)!!

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