Dreaming.In.Reality

Caution.. baby toilet talk coming up!

Back at the end of Feb we noticed Lucien was making the motions (telling us he’d pooped or grabbing the front of his diaper and saying wet) of wanting to be on the potty to do his business. So we set up a potty in the bathroom and everytime he was in there he would lift the lid, sit on it etc, clothed or naked. We practiced a routine every time he did it; he’d sit, get up & close the lid, then wash hands.

He’s been for the past month or so being really good about telling us when he’s gone to the bathroom. Not really sure when but it was over last weekend, he started to ask for a diaper change (nothing new, he’d ask for it if he was really wet or had pooped), so I took him upstairs to change him. Nothing there, diaper was dry, so I asked him if he needed to use the potty instead, and he said yep with a head nod (which means yes in Lucien’s world. No head nod? Doesn’t actually mean yes no matter what he said-lol-). So we marched into the bathroom, he lifted the lid, sat and did his business probably within about a minute or so of sitting down.

Since then, during our “at home” time, we’ve only missed about 2 pees a day. Today was a VERY busy day, lots of running around, he drank a lot and was very upset that his diaper was full most of the morning (even with 3-4 diaper changes). This afternoon we went shopping and he pitched a fit half way through saying he needed to have a diaper change and of course when we got to the bathroom, diaper was dry, and attempting to sit on the potty was a failure. So diaper went back on, we finished shopping and dinner and then came home. Kev took him up right away to use the potty(dry diaper!) and he probably did all of his urine passing for the 3-4 hours we were at the mall within 30 seconds of sitting down. Not only that, but he also had his first poop on the potty.

Lucien is EXTREMELY excited about all of this. We make a big fuss, and I’m in the process of setting up a sticker chart for him. He thinks it’s pretty neat what he can do. I have been watching him when he’s on the thrown for facial expressions etc, so that I can keep closer tabs on him when he’s NOT in the bathroom. He’s been practicing yesterday and tonight, starting/stopping/starting his urine stream; you can tell on his face he’s trying to figure out how it all feels to him. When he asks for a diaper change we’re gently redirecting him to ask to use the potty. I’m pretty excited as well. I don’t think we’re close to being diaper free, but we’re definately close to changing less and less.