Friday, October 2, 2009

Potty Training

For the past 2 and a half weeks we've been working on potty-training Evan. He's really doing awesome...much better than I ever expected him to do. Thank you to everyone that has been encouraging us and giving us advice. We've taken a little bit of everyone's advice and found a way that is working for Evan. We started out with a timer going off every 20 minutes to signal "time to potty." It stretched to 30 minutes after a few days....thank goodness cuz I felt like I was spending half my day in the bathroom. Now he's going without a timer and he's getting better at telling me when he has to go. Evan loves his big-boy underwear and will do just about anything for an M&M or a Pez. I'm pretty sure he's had more sugar in the last 2 weeks than in his first 2 years of life! Its been exhausting but I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel!

5 comments:

Whitlocks said...

Good for you Evan! I will be expecting every detail Jen so I can use the info in a few months with Isaac:)
-Katie

The Birketts said...

You make the poor kid carry his own potty with him? JK- he is doing great with it! Good job buddy!

Jarretts said...

YAY Evan!!! That is wonderful . . . so nice to be out of diapers : ) WOO-HOO! I am still thinking I might try to potty train Kinsey before the baby comes, but we'll see!

Anonymous said...

That picture is hilarious!!! That one definitely needs to be tagged for the "wedding video" in about 20 years!!!

Tori said...

I was wondering how it was going! Sounds like things are coming along! I'm a little intimidated by it all...which is why I haven't really started with O...but this is encouraging!