Potty Time!

Ok, here we go. Tomorrow starts potty training in our household. I am in no way, shape or form looking forward to this. If I had it my way, I would continue to buy diapers. Diapers make my life easier. I'm in a pretty good routine with 2 kiddos in diapers. Change one, change the other, wait a while, do it all over again. No accidents and no potty fears of germs and other things that lurk in/on public bathrooms. That's all about to change. Greyson will be going to a 2, half days, a week preschool. They are the ones requiring a "pretty much potty trained" child. So the procrastinator that I am, we are just now starting with only 4 weeks to be "pretty much potty trained." I know all of you moms that have done this or are in the process of doing it are laughing right now and thinking that I'm nuts and should have started long ago. I couldn't do that, it wouldn't be procrastinating, and that wouldn't be me.

So where do you start? With somewhere to potty. I didn't buy a kiddy toilet because I think they are disgusting and why would I want to clean that thing out when there is a perfectly good toilet right there that flushes. It cleans itself! I did buy the little seat that sits on top of the toilet so he doesn't fall in. Josh wanted to buy a toddler urinal and train him to pee standing up. After much research, I found one on line called the "Peter Potty." Yup. That's the real name. Picture this....I'm calling around to every store that carries anything to do with babies asking teenage sales associates if they carry a "Peter Potty." It just sounds wrong and most of the time I found myself explaining what it was so I didn't sound like some sort of weirdo. I'm pretty sure every single person I talked to thought it was a prank call. No "Peter Potty" was found so back to the original plan of using our perfectly good potty.

This is going to be gross, hilarious, exhausting, and rewarding at the same time. So here I am armed with loads of big boy underwear and an endless supply of jelly bellies. I will set an alarm to go off every 30 minutes and try to entertain a toddler in the bathroom while we wait for the excitement to happen. I have no idea what I'm doing and I have 4 weeks to do it. Is this even possible? Can it be done? Looks like we're about to find out.

A friend of mine gave me a great tip about going out in public during the training days. She told me to put a pull up over the big boy underwear so if there is an accident, there's no mess.