Going Streaking

A few weeks ago Reid decided he was finished wearing diapers!!  Of course, this was the day after I bought a box of 100 diapers for him!!  But I'll gladly save those diapers or give them to someone else! :)

Pants Off!! He's Ready!!

I had a lot of trouble potty training Connor so I decided I wasn't putting myself through that again and would just let Reid decide when he was ready.  Because he could sit in a dirty diaper for hours, I figured it would be a loooong time before he was ready to use the potty.  But thankfully I was wrong!  It started on a Friday when I was down and out with the stomach bug.  Josh was out of town so I watched the boys from the couch most of the day.  Out of the blue Reid started holding his hiney announcing he needed to go potty.  I stumbled to the garage to get the little potty and sure he enough he went! 
The next few days we stayed around the house and I kept him naked from the waist down; it worked!! The first week he only had 1 accident a day!!  Because I didn't feel well, I kept the potty in the same room where I was:

 In the kitchen

 Watching cartoons in the den

And it worked! He would just sit and sit on the potty!!  We started a sticker sheet and he and Connor would both get so excited when Reid earned a sticker!

 We let him pick out his new underwear and he picked Thomas the Train. His teachers said he was very excited to show them off!

Soon enough I moved the little potty into the bathroom and here's what I found:

 I try to take the potty with me when we go places. Here we were at MeMaw's loading up when Reid needed to go.  So out on the driveway he sat!

He went in a urinal for the first time yesterday.  This was after he had picked up the drain to it and tried to sit on it!! Yuck!!!

Whenever he goes #2 he gets a toy.

 Connor likes to get in on the action too!

For the first 2-3 weeks he did very well.  I guess the excitement has worn off a bit because he has been having daily accidents and now wetting his bed at night (even with a pull up on.) In the beginning when he was so excited to use his potty he was staying dry all night.

Overall he's doing well and I'm proud of him.  It just might take a while to completely master it.

When we were at the YMCA the other day I went to pick him up from childcare and he was in the restroom.  As we were leaving I noticed his shoes were on the wrong feet and that his socks were off.  I asked if he had left his socks somewhere and in the restroom they found his socks and underwear!!  When I asked Reid if he forgot to put his underwear back on, he had to stretch out his pants and look down there to see!!  

Once when I was in the shower he ran into the bathroom with a crayon in his hand.  He proudly announced that he [didn't quite make it to the potty and pee'd right next to it] then took a crayon and colored his pee pee!!  Sure enough I found pink urine on the floor!!!

 

Such a big boy now!!