The adventures of Tee Tee

Amidst the sadness this weekend we Cherished life around our family. We have been tackling the potty training thing with Preston the past two weekends. We were reminded, via a note, in Preston's mailbox at school that all kids have to be potty trained before moving up to the next classroom at school in August. All kids got that note, right? Well, I am telling myself that at least. Surely, Preston isn't the only three year old out there not potty trained?!?!

You name it, we've tried it. We have a frog potty that stands about a foot off the ground and is portable for all of your different scenic pleasures. We have an Elmo lid that you just add to the normal toilet lid, but it comes with the security that you won't fall in. Preston has a book to read about Charlie going potty and we have an adult book that we bought for us. The adult book was written in 1970 something and has you train your kid with a doll that wets themselves. Well, we only read so far in that book. We have pull ups, training underwear and big boy underwear (Nemo and Cars and Star Wars and Elmo and Wall E and Incredibles and Toy Story, oh my!)

Needless to say, we are still potty training.

Preston, aka Mr. Independent, as I like to call him will definitely " learn" in his own time. I say "learn" because this kid is smart and I've decided he is just determined to take advantage of all of the bribes we offer. From M&Ms to trips to the park or white water. We offer ice cream and movie time. He also has gotten to play on the iPhone while on the potty...the modern day newspaper right?

Thank goodness Preston has been successful on the potty. Going both "tee tee" and "poo." With most successes come failures though? Let's just say I have thrown away several pairs of underwear filled with the poo substance. I can't seem to talk myself into cleaning those out, nor teaching Preston how to. The pull up route hasn't worked. Why would he tell us he needs to go to the bathroom when he can non-chalantly go in his diaper? We've tried the underwear route and it goes okay with constant reminders. This past week I decided to try the nudist route and it worked wonders! My fear though, was that he was going to expect to go to preschool and take off his clothes. Fear overcome...thank goodness that was not his expectation. We learned this past weekend, after a night at YaYa's that he likes to go standing up...of course he does! Why didn't we think of that?!?! He is pretty successful at keeping it in the toilet from long range (he stands on a stool to do it which puts him pretty far away). He likes the challenge of keeping it in the bowl. Let's hope that remains the cool thing to do.

We struggle still after waking up. He seems to undoubtedly lose all motivation of what he has learned and we generally go through fits, which in turn leads to is bribing him. Without a doubt, this is an adventure! :). I'm clinging to the saying that "boy's take longer than girls" and maintaining hope. We have a month and half to get this accomplished.