Well, we hadn't planned on working on this yet.....but Jack has jumped into potty training all on his own. We have a little potty in our master bath and he has been sitting on it quite often lately. So on Tuesday (two nights ago) I took off his diaper and he sat on the potty. I asked him if he was going to go "pee pee" and he stood up and began to go. I helped him sit back down and he did the rest in the potty. I left his diaper off for the rest of the evening...and later he began to go on the floor, so I scooped him up and told him that we do that on the potty as I sat him on the little potty.
Then yesterday, I took off his diaper when we got up and sat him on the potty. He immediately went Pee Pee. Then Paul called me while I was at work later that morning to let me know that Jack put his hand over his mouth and gasped and then ran into the bathroom and sat on the potty and went pee pee all on his own. Since that time, whenever we take off his diaper, he does all of his pee pees on the potty.
In fact, yesterday we started giving him one M&M each time he successfully used the potty. By this evening, the little stinker has figured out that if he just goes a little and holds the rest, he can get an M&M and then he can go right back to the potty and go again and get another M&M and so on and so on. I am telling you....he is so smart!!!
(I will note that he is not the neatest baby in the world...as he hasn't mastered keeping his pee pee pointed down while he sits on the potty and we end up with a bit of a mess each time he goes on the potty....but we can work on that later.)
I am pretty amazed at how early he is able to grasp this concept and actually begin potty training.
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