Huggies No More

A few months before Clayton turned 2, he starting using the restroom on the "big boy potty" every night before his bath. We made a big deal about it and gave him a ton of praise. When I took him to his pediatrician for his 2-year-old appointment, I told her about his new trick and asked her about potty training. She responded with, "It's way too early for that. The average potty training age for boys is 33 months." I smiled smugly and thought to myself, "Yeah, right. That is 9 months from now. We'll have this thing licked in the next couple of months." I couldn't have been more wrong...

Clayton would always go if we asked him, but would never initiate a trip to the bathroom. He would constantly say things like, "I'm going to wear stinky diapers forever." After months of trying to toilet train him, I was pretty sure that he may, in fact, wear stinky diapers forever.

After months of banging my head against the wall, we finally turned a corner last week. I don't know if it was the fact that he is now officially 33 months or that we were actually home all day for a couple of days. But... he is finally wearing underwear all day (and at night). Yipee!!! We finally conquered the biggest hurdle that we have jumped over thus far in our 2 1/2 years of parenting!

Clayton has wanted a Spiderman scooter since the summer. I made him a sticker chart in October and told him that when he went 5 days without an accident, he could get his scooter. Last night he collected his last sticker and today he got his scooter! He was so proud of himself! He has made several laps around the island in the kitchen already today. :)



How cute is he?!?!?!