.Ethan.

I haven't done an update on Ethan in a while and figured it was time to give him a shout out.

ETHAN IS POTTY TRAINED!! YAAHOO! WAAHOO!

He was a total rockstar. Woke up one Monday morning and went potty, came to me and said, "I a big boy, I wear big boy undies and go big potty!" Literally that was all it took. We are into our third week of dry nights and are going strong! I go cold turkey when it comes to potty training, they wear a diaper that first day, just to makes sure the successful day wasn't a fluke and then a towel down the next two or three nights. He still wakes in the night, I don't think he has slept through the night in his life, so he wakes and takes himself potty or asks us to turn on the light. Rockstar!

I am so thankful.

I had to include a photo of his cute big boy undies sticking out! What a spunk!

Big Boy

I am so very pleased to announce....

....THIS BOY IS POTTY TRAINED!!! YAY!!!

This was our 5th and final attempt to potty train. We bought a trainset for Cade for his birthday and had it stashed away and I told Cory it was time to pull it out and display it and let that be the motivation to Cade to finally go potty. And it totally worked!!
We made a chart and put stickers on it at every potty time. He did fantastic! The first and second day I seriously thought it would be the death of me, both Cade and I have very little patience at times and therefore clash heads. We hung in there and I am so thankful we did. It was truly a bonding process for us too. Realising he can be independant in a good way was empowering for him and totally beneficial for me too. I was thinking it would be forever before he would poop on the potty, but by Friday that same week (so 4 days into it) he was pooping no problems. He has had 2 accidents since then and nothing for over a week now. He is waking dry of a morning and taking himself straight to the potty. He has also graduated from his potty and is now on the big toilet. What a big boy I have!! I am so happy with all that he had accomplished and I know he is happy with himself too, there is just a different sense about him, almost a new step in confidence and I love that.

CONGRATULATIONS my biggest little boy!!




The pictures above are from before we started to try, we made this chart and he was so proud of it. If you look at that first picture, you can see the bottom chart is covered in stickers... and so is his little potty, apparently he was running out of room.

Just Coz I Think He Is So Stinkin' Cute