3-Day Potty Training: Day 1 Noontime Totals

Pairs of big boy underwear in the wash while Collin naps: 9

Pairs of big boy underwear on the boy while he naps: 1

Number of Collin's Shirts in the wash while he naps: 2

Pairs of Mommy's pants in the wash while Collin naps: 3

Pairs of Daddy's pants in the wash while Daddy naps: 0 (what the heck!?)

Number of successful pee trips to the potty*: 3

Number of successful poo-poo trips to the potty:0(no poops in the pants yet either, so phew!)

Number of accidental poo-poo trips to the potty**: 1

Number of Laundry Fairies working today: 1

*We count a successful trip to the potty as being him telling us, in any way, that he needs to go, making it there still dry, and doing something, ANYTHING, in the potty chair, even if it's just a dribble.

**The first visit to the potty chair this morning resulted in a poop. What? It freaked him out a little, I think. We were shocked too. It was very tiny but nonetheless, a big success. It was a bit of a surprise to everyone as no one even knew he had to poop or saw him push. But, hooray for Collin and the surprise, accidental poop!

Yep, we're marking the halfway point of day one and it's been a doozie. No one said it'd be easy, and it hasn't; but, I'm super-duper proud of my little man. And, that's what he's shaping up to be. Enjoy my random pictures of the day so far, including what I think is quite possibly, the cutest toosh to ever, EVER fill the Thomas underpants! (P.S. that's a string hanging down, not pee!)

After some fun opening our underwear and throwing out the remainder of our diapers (thankfully, we only had five left!) and our genie this morning, we put on the big boy underwear. Collin thought it was a great hoot to throw out the stuff. I think he was a little overwhelmed by the whole thing and was more interested in continuing to throw out stuff than put on underwear. And, the fact that he got to drink juice all day is throwing him for an equal loop. Since the goal is to keep him peeing nonstop to give him every opportunity to make it to the potty chair as many times as possible, we wanted him to drink, drink, drink, drink. Alas, juice. So, he thinks it's Mardi Gras in our house today, despite the fact that this juice probably tastes like crap because I watered it down so much.

Anyway, about an hour into our little experiment, he freaked and got suddenly scared of his potty chair. Fear not, little one! We busted out the new froggy chair and some hugs and all was well again, slowly but surely. Apparently, froggy likes pee-pee in his belly and Collin likes if you turn the potty chair with his back to you so he can lean into you and be hugged when he goes. So sweet! Oh, and he kind of likes music in the bathroom. So, from there, we've had relative success. He even knew he was having an "accident" when he started to wet during lunch and he announced it. Good on him. Only four hours into the program and that's the second time he announced his wetness before he finished. He held the rest and finished in the potty chair. HOORAY!

Anyway, we are almost out of potty rewards and we thought we were totally stocked up. Alas, I'm going out after he goes to bed tonight to get more. It's hard not to reward him when he keeps going in the potty! And, we had to give him lots of treats at first to get him over the "freaked out" hump, which seemed to work. Now that he's chilled, he seems to like dumping his own pee into the big toilet and washing his hands when he's done. Wish us luck for the dry nap!

I'm a little bummed because one of the things we were supposed to do was look for Collin's "tell;" the sign that he was about to go, and grab him before he started going to put him on the potty. Well, he doesn't have one. He doesn't even stop playing, make a face, look distant, nothing. He just pees, right there on the carpet. The only thing I notice is that he seems to prefer standing. Anyway, thankfully he seems to now tell us a few seconds before he has to go and the last handful of times, he's held it until we got to the chair. He's either said, "pee-pee," "poo-poo," or "potty." So, despite his lack of a tell, at least he's "telling" us! Oh yeah, and he's gotten so many jelly beans for sitting on the potty, he's pretty much become Pavlov's dog...when he's sixty, he'll still be salivating when he's peeing.