Wearing underwear!

Owen and I went to Walmart today and he picked put 3 kinds of new big-boy underwear – Spiderman, Batman, and Transformers. And he even went pee on the toilet at Safeway (without a potty seat), and then, when we got home, Owen decided to pee standing up. Thankfully Papa cleaned up all the mess before I saw it.

he poops in the toilet now!

I am speechless – Owen has gone poop on the toilet twice today! He went once at Grandma’s house – and his pull up was dry almost all day (only 2 small accidents), and then just now he went pee on the toilet all by himself and then poop all by himself 10 minutes later. He literally did it all by himself – he pulled his pants and pull up down, he put the potty seat on the toilet, climbed up, went pee and poop, wiped himself, pulled up his pull up and diaper, closed the lid, flushed, and then washed his hands. The only reason we knew he went was because we heard the water running and I went to investigate. Yay Owen! I think it is time to get some real big-boy undies!

not quite there yet...

Owen is going potty all by himself now. He pulled down his pants and his pull-up, went pee on the potty, and then pulled up his pull-up and jeans and THEN came and told us he went pee! Things like this make me think he won’t be in diapers for much longer. But then… he goes and poops in his pull-up. Sigh.

Bribery works!

We got this idea from our friend Keira. How it works is like this: when Owen does one of these 'good things', he gets a sticker. Some of these things are easier to do that others. And when he gets 10 stickers, he gets to pick out a prize from the prize bag (which are all Dollar Store items that he picked out last time we were there - stickers, toys, costume pieces, etc.).

Our main objective with this chart is to get Owen to a) go potty, and b) tell us when he has a huge, stinking, rotten poop in his diaper. 

So far it is working. It has taken 2 months (this is only the latest chart), but Owen now asks to go potty. And guess what?! He is actually going now! Yay!

The other day Owen asked to go potty (the first time ever that he initiated it) and after sitting for a good half an hour, he went pee and poop on the potty! Yay Owen! Way to go!

(his eyes are closed because he hates the flash on my camera)

It's still not an everyday, every time thing, but we are well on our way to being potty trained now. My goal is to have Owen going (and actually going) multiple times a day every day by Owen's 3rd birthday (end of January).

Very busy day!

Today was a very busy day for all of us!


First of all, Owen went to daycare as a pirate. I don't argue with him anymore about it. Why can't he be a pirate all the time? So off he went in his full costume... with his Peter Pan movie to boot!

Once Owen got home we played, had dinner, and then took some pictures with him and Andy as it is Andy's 2-month birthday today!

It is a constant battle for me to get Owen NOT to poke his brother in the eye. I don;t know what it is about 2 year old and poking babies inthe eye! Sometimes he'll even ask me "Mama, can I poke Baby Andy in the eye now?" No!

And then, before bed, Owen asked to go pee on the potty. He doesn't often ask to do this - or ever - so off we went to the potty with the promise of Cars stickers afterwards. After sitting on the potty for a few minutes and trying to push out farts (and succeding), Owen also pushed out some pee, freaked himself out as he hasn't done that befor, and then he wanted off the potty pronto. He did get 2 Cars stickers though and now we have decided to have a little bit of potty time everyday.