About a month ago, Lil’Chicano announced that if I ran out of diapers, he would use the potty. So we did. Run out of diapers that is. About a week ago.
The first few days were accident after accident after accident. Then I figured out that is was because Bear told Ojo that accidents are OK. So we had a talk, and I informed him that accidents are not ok if he is not even trying to get to the potty in time. Then I reread the book, improving Bear’s discussion with Ojo, so that Bear told Ojo really needed to get to the potty and not pee her pants all the time.
It worked! We have been accident free since last Saturday, execpt for the one accident in church Sunday that was my fault because I didn’t fully explain the situation to the nursery workers. My bad… Also, we have been accident-free at night since Sunday Night. At first he wore “Bedtime Unnerwears” aka Pull-ups. But he got so upset when we had to throw them away in the morning. After a few nights of being dry in the morning, he decided last night that he wanted to wear his big kid unnerwears to bed. AWESOME!
And so… after 6 years, 50 weeks, & 5 days – or roughly 15,120 dirty diapers (and yes, I did the math cuz I am geeky like that), we are officially diaper free!
WOO HOO!
‘scuse me while I do a funky monkey dance with my soon to be 3 year old…