Niran was always showing that he was getting ready to go potty. We decided that once Niran and I got settled in our new home we would start potty training. From the start we knew it might take awhile with him being so young but we wanted to take advantage of him feeling like he had to go potty and help him associate it with the act of going potty now rather than waiting until he was just used to that feeling. My mom bought us a pretty cool toilet seat. The toddler's potty seat fits up into the lid and we can drop it down when Niran needed it or put it up when it he didn't.
A few days after Exodus ended and Dusty had headed back to BCT Niran and I started training. I want to say it was January 5th or 7th. He sat on it once or twice and went pee, but then he refused to go potty after that. He would straighten his body and scream. I started debating if I should get a stand alone potty for him and see how he did, but I didn't care for the idea of cleaning up after every use. I had decided to skip it and wait for him to be ready to sit on the toilet. My friend got her daughter a stand alone potty and she loved it. She's gone potty in it only a couple of times this last week, but that gave me a lot of hope. I caved and Thursday night I did some research. I found the potty I wanted. It wasn't plain, it was fun. It didn't have all the bells and whistles that a lot of potties have now, which I knew Niran could easily get distracted by. It also had really good reviews over multiple sites and the negative reviews seemed closer to people having children that just weren't ready. Friday morning we picked up his new potty! We pulled it out of the packaging in the kitchen, but he was only excited to push it around and wasn't thrilled to sit on it, but I didn't give up hope. We ate lunch and then afterwards we went into the bathroom and sat down on the potty. He actually went pee in it! I cheered him on and he applauded himself as well.
I knew I had to keep him excited for going. After his nap he went potty as well, but he didn't want to after dinner. He really wanted to play in the bath. Or else he wanted to pee in the bath because that was the first thing he did in the tub.
He's doing well with potty training. He'll let me know when he has to go #2, usually includes him squating. The peeing in the potty has pretty much disappeared, he just doesn't seem to do it unless it's a mini tinkle. We still work on it through out the day. Grandma has been good about helping him as well. We might have to get Uncle McKay to help out on the peeing part :o)
I thought you'd like to see how cute he looked in his big boy underwear. We wore them for a day and he kept them dry minus one accident. The next day he started hiding behind the couch...back to pull ups!
