So this is where it all begins... I've toyed with the idea of starting a blog for a looooong time, and I don't think I can wait any longer. Walker is 3 now and we looked back at some videos of him at age 1 today. Where did all that time go?? There were so many things that I was sure I would remember, and now I'm not so sure, hence the blog. It's tough to know where to begin, so how about with today!
We've been working with Walker on becoming potty trained for the last, oh I don't know, eighteen months or so. He's been an all or nothing sort of guy - sometimes it's all, sometimes it's nothing. (We might know someone else like this too :) ) He's been peeing on the potty ALL the time for quite awhile, the pooping though - that's another story. When he started changing his own diapers we decided we had to take some serious action. The doctor recommended that we give him a bit of a laxative every day to make it easier for him to practice. The fun begins there. We decided to start this a couple days before the Super Bowl - this was like a holy holiday for Jay this year. The Steelers were in the game. We started giving Walker the laxatives for 3 days before the game - still no poop. Jay had a Super Bowl party for the holiday this year. So approximately one hour into the game - Walker nonchalantly whispers to me "Mom, I have to go poop". Hallelujah! It's working I thought- so we race to the bathroom quietly because he doesn't want anyone else to know - he needs his "privatcy" - and he does it! About a half an hour later - this all happens again - and again we're in business. Well let me just say, that while I am not in the least bit interested in the Super Bowl, I can feign interest at a party. I had NO idea who won the Super Bowl this year - despite cheering I'm sure I missed - because I spent the entire night in the bathroom with the child who the laxatives finally caught up with. Let's just suffice it to say that this evening in the bathroom was just the beginning, as the night wore on the poop didn't just make it in the potty.
What is all this talk about poop you might ask? Well we had heard that potty training isn't so difficult - the books and other parents who had gone before us made it sound so serene and easy. "You just have to wait until the child is ready," they said, "he'll just wake up one day and want to use the potty." Not our child, I tell you. We tried EVERYTHING - it started with a toy from the dollar store, then we moved on to a chart posted on the bathroom wall with princess stamps, then we started the BIG bribes of just about any toy in the "pooping box" (a box you blindly reach into and pull ot something good), finally just a choice of things out of the old pooping box. Walker's desire to go in the potty went down as he got each new item, until finally one day we decided that we'd had enough! If he could change his own diaper, choose to go in the bathroom to go potty, and come out and ask to be changed when he was done - he no longer needed diapers. We prepared and prepared ntil finally the day after his 3 year old birthday party - the diapers were gone. Mr. Stubborn, independent decided that he could hold it. 3 days went by and he was still holding it! So - we resorted to laxatives. They sure worked!
About six months ago Mimi came to visit and saw this marble set that Walker had been coveting at Dandelion Toys. We're talking the Marble Set of all Marble Sets - gigantically tall with all different colors and marbles and cool moving pieces. This thing has been the carrot since then. Well today was the day - the day Walker arrived at Dandelion Toys and we purchased the marble set!!!!
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