I am happy to
say that Chase is finally potty
trained. Finally! I don’t mean to sound like we were rushing him, because we
let him go at his own pace. We didn’t actually expect him to be potty trained
this soon, he’s only just turned 3, so it came a huge surprise when he decided
that he wanted to ditch the pull-ups. So when I use the word finally I mean that it’s way expensive
to buy diapers for two little guys. Now we only have to buy for Lincoln. And
hey, if we get him potty trained by
14 months (which I believe to be an urban legend, personally) we will be done
with diapers completely. Yay!
So, how did we
do it? Well, if you would like to know, read on.
First we
introduced him to the potty when he was 2 by (creepy, I know) bringing him in
with us and letting him watch us use the potty. He never liked the potty chair
so we got him a seat for him to use on our toilets. He wasn’t understanding the
concept of holding it and then going potty, so we decided to put him in
pull-ups until he was more ready. We would let him wear underwear every once in
a while to let him slowly adjust. Then, seemingly overnight, he was ready. 38
months old, he went an entire day without wetting his underwear and we decided
for fun to see what happened overnight. I’m not going to lie, I was skeptical.
I was positive that he was going to wet the bed that night. Now it’s a week
later and he hasn’t wet the bed once and has had underwear on every night.
In other news, he
started seeing a speech therapist to work on certain syllables that are difficult
for him to say. He’s there with another little boy his age and same speaking
level and I couldn’t be happier with the results. People had told us about
using speech therapists since he was 2 and not saying mama or dada. We waited
it out and now I wish we hadn’t because he has done SO much better since we
started. He says full sentences that we don’t need to instruct him on. He has
actual conversations on the phone with his grandparents. I’m proud of his
progress in the past few months. It’s hard to believe how far we have actually
come.
