Big news - big boy!

J wore underpants all day yesterday without a single accident!  Maybe just maybe we won't have 4 kids in diapers at the same time after all!  

Potty at night time?

Kaden got up last night to go to the bathroom! I could believe it. He is such a big boy. His eyes were only barely open and he mumbled "Peeing Mommy" (which does not mean he's actually going right then, but that he needs to go. He has his tenses mixed up)

Big Boy

Kaden has been doing such a great job on the potty. Its been more than a week now since he's had an accident, except for the time he insisted on wearing underpants to nap and slept for nearly 3 hours... As you can see by the photo above, his potty chart is loaded up with stickers! He has been awesome. We are so proud of him, but I will admit I was surprised today when I was told "No!" after I got up to take him to the bathroom after he announced he needed to go. He insisted on doing it by himself! I wasn't even allowed in the bathroom. A couple of times he has told us he wanted to pull up and down his own pants, "Just like Kenna do it!" But at least we were allow in the bathroom with him, aparently those days are gone!

Potty?

The kids and I were in the car on the way back from BJs yesterday when Mackinna started kicking my seat and kind of jumping around. Kaden looks over at her and asks, "Potty Denna?" He was absolutely right, which shouldn't have been a surprise- she does it all the time, but man it cracked me up!

Undies

Today Kaden insisted on napping in his undies, which made me quite nervous, but I went along with it.  He had just gone pee right before going down, so I figured we should be okay.  Then an hour later he still wasn't asleep- when I finally got him to go to sleep he slept for 3 and a half hours!  By that point I had forgotten he was in undies and was actually turning my attention to being worried that he might not be breathing, so when he finally came down stairs in a t shirt and undies Mark was pretty surprised first that I had allowed it, but second that they were dry after all that time.  I then literally ran over and scooped him up and bolted to the bathroom, certain he was going to pee any second- perhaps even on me on the way in.  This apparently irritated him because he hadn't had a chance to really wake up.  He threw a fit on the bathroom floor and refused to sit on the potty.  I gave up and let him have a couple of minutes to come around.  The next thing I know he comes up to me and says, "Mommy... peed."  (in his undies)

Its been 7 months

...Since Kaden first started using the potty in the mornings.  Things continued along with maybe 2 potty uses per day for quite some time, with the occasional 3 x days.  Well the past couple of days he's been a potty champ.  I think we have had a huge break through.  On Saturday at the Highland games he told me he had to go potty.  I told him to try to hold it while we located the porta potties.  We talked about what  big boy he was, while we walked what seemed like miles to the closest bathrooms, and sure enough when we got there he went!  So not only did he go in a porta potty, but he told me and then waited kind of a long time!  Then yesterday we only used only ONE pull up all day long.  (He did have one little accident on the beach- in his bathing suit, but I'm not counting it.)  One pull up all day is incredible!  We would have worn it to bed, except it was pretty tattered and torn by that point in the night.  We are almost out of diapers and when I was at BJs yesterday I decided I wasn't buying anymore.  I think we'll switch to pull ups all the time now.  He wakes up dry 90% of the time in the morning and at nap- so I don't think we even need them for that.  The pull up can handle it!  And if he's only going to use one or two a day, I don't care that they are way more expensive than the diapers!  Yeah Kaden!  What a big boy!

Potty photo shoot

Potty

Kaden is doing such a good job on the potty. He's peed on it 5 out of 6 mornings now. (on the floor twice on the other morning after sitting on the potty and doing nothing)

The first couple of times, it was just because I happened to sit in there with him long enough, but now its seems like he's starting to really get it. I asked him when he woke up if he wanted to go sit on the potty and he grabbed a book and ran in there, lifted the lid and started trying to pull down his jammie pants. He sat and peed almost immediately, then stood up to see it. I was concerned that there was not much in there and asked him to sit back down and finish and sure enough he did. He had just gotten so excited to see it he couldn't wait to finish up I guess! When he did finish, he attempted to pick it up and dump it in the toilet himself! I assisted in that part in hopes of keeping the pee from getting dumped all over the floor.

Is so cute how proud he is of himself and how proud Mackinna is of him. I'm not about to give up the diapers or anything, but we are definitely making progress.

Again!

Again yesterday morning Kaden woke up dry and I stuck him on the potty, and sure enough he went.  When Mackinna came in to see, she said, "Oh Daddy should see this."  She was serious, it was really cute.  

 Today though, when I went to the bathroom I asked Kaden if he wanted to try too.  He said yes-which didn't surprise me because he always does.  The kid loves just sitting on the potty and then wiping nothing, but wouldn't you know, when he stood up today there was actually pee in there.  I was shocked!  I thought it was great that he's gone a couple of times first thing in the morning, but felt kind of like it was cheating- but today feels more for real.  

 I took a picture of Kaden looking at his pee.  (he practically sticks his face in there)  I'll post it when I figure out how to upload pictures from the new camera.

My baby really isn't a baby anymore...

I don't know why its taken me this long to notice, but my baby is really a little boy now. You would think any number of things like that fact that he's been wearing 24 month clothes for a few months now, might have tipped me off, or that his once wobbly walk has become a run these days, or that he feeds the dogs and lets them inside when they bark, or that lately he's been demanding a big boy cup without a sippy top! But today he turned 18 months- which is a pretty big milestone in itself, but he also peed on the potty for the first time and ate his dinner at the table with us rather than in his highchair. (see picture below- note he's signing "more" for more pizza).

When Kaden woke up this morning with a dry diaper, I stuck him on the potty chair and we hung out in the bathroom for a while. Mackinna read him a book, we played patty cake & brushed his teeth while we waited, and sure enough, eventually he peed. Mackinna was so proud of him and made such a big deal- it was really great. Kaden didn't seem to care or muster up even a fraction of the excitement that his sister had for him, so we'll see if it happens again anytime soon.

Maybe since he's doing so many big boy things today, he'll sleep through the night tonight???? I think if he did, I'd be so worried he had stopped breathing or something, that I have to go check on him and wouldn't get a good nights sleep anyway.