Adventures in Potty Training

Potty training mode has hit our household in full force. I have a 16 month old who is showing the signs that he is ready to start potty training and that makes Mom and Dad VERY excited!

For some reason I am a little terrified to potty train my son. This feels like the first thing I am teaching him to do and I am afraid I am going to mentally scar him for life. So I have been researching how to potty train. What I keep finding is....there isn't tricks to potty training. I kept looking and looking for what you are supposed to do but its actually really basic. It's funny when you're a mommy you want to be the BEST mommy in the entire world so you over complicate things, I tend to do this often and with everything. So I actually wrote out a step by step list of how I wanted to start potty training. I planned on going through each step and by the end of it my son would be a potty training pro.

The first thing on the list was to buy a little potty and every time I went to the bathroom to let my son come in and sit on his potty and explain to him that this is where you go potty. To my surprise my son was further along in the "darling potty training process" then I was prepared. He came right up to me lifted his shirt up and pointed to his diaper. I responded with "do you need to go potty" and sure enough he ran to the bathroom door and pounded on it. I was not prepared for him to understand what I meant and was still sitting in my chair with my 2 month old. So I had to put the baby down and run to the door to let him in, of course he had already gone. But it just showed me that it's really a simple process if you just let them do it. So now we are on to step 2 which is putting him on the potty during set times and if he goes GREAT and if he doesn't at least he tried!

Tonight was the first night that we put him on the potty while we got his bath going and he went. He looked down with amazement and said "all done". I got so excited that I cried...who cries over pee...I do! LOL Funny thing is now when I look at him I don't see this little baby, he is now a big boy and all I want to do is freeze time because its just going too fast.

I am sure as we get further into potty training I will have more stories to tell but the morale of the story is...don't over think the process and to just let everything happen when it is ready to happen.