Day 66: Potty Training Again

Ok, after a good month and a half off, I've decided to start pushing the potty issue with Jack again. I have to admit, he is doing better this time around. There are at least signs here and there that he is getting it. First thing this morning he told me that he had to go poo poo, so we ran him to the potty. And there we sat for the next hour+. Finally he did go pee, and he was very excited about this. I wasn't even in the room when it happened, but he called to me quickly to inform me that he had gone. It was a big deal.

Then I decided to give it a go with underwear on. Jack didn't have any "big boy pants" so I put him in a pair of Lucy's which were blue. This was good enough for him. He actually did surprisingly well over all. He stayed dry for most of the day. He even brought down Lucy's old potty chair and sat on it while watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, all his idea. Then he peed in that potty and told me. This was all very encouraging! I was one excited mama!

Then we hit a wall. About 25 minutes later, I found Jack standing in a corner saying "Oh no mommy!" He was very concerned and I knew he must have had an accident and was trying to figure out what just happened. I went to him and sure enough, he was soggy from the waist down. What was worse was the puddle he was standing in, which I quickly noticed had spread under my coupon binder. Now, if you've heard me talk about my couponing, you know how much time and energy I put into my coupon binder, I don't mess around. So seeing my second career basically laying in a puddle of filth really effected me. You would have been proud of me though, I took care of Jack first and lovingly, he didn't get it trouble at all, I was the idiot who put him in the underwear. Then I cleaned the puddle on the floor, then I proceeded to disinfect my binder. In the end no harm was done, my binder was only touched on the outside, none of the pages.

After the potty puddle, I decided it was nap time for Jack. I put him down. 20 minutes later, I put him down again. 10 minutes later I yelled at him to stay in his bed. Repeat, repeat, repeat. At this point I decided to get the crib ready for Haley and Bennett when they come this weekend. To do that I had to lower the mattress. Why do this now? Because Jack clearly wasn't going to take a nap in his bed, so I was putting him in the crib. I thought for sure this would get him. I was wrong. He was somehow even louder.

When I went in to yell at him again, guess what? He was saying something about monkeys jumping on the bed. I thought it was adorable. Shawn and Jack and Lucy had been singing the Monkey's Jumping on the Bed song a couple of nights ago, and now Jack was acting it out. How cute is that? Well, that's what I thought he was saying, turns out he was actually just throwing around Lucy's sock monkey and threw it out of the bed and wanted me to get it for him. Little monkey.

After 2 and a half hours of battling the nap, I surrendered. I loaded Jack into the car and we headed to Ross to buy some sheets. We didn't make it out of the neighborhood before Jack was asleep. Little terd. But we went to Ross, I got my sheets. Then we went to Target to get Jack his own big boy pants. That is where I found some crystal air fresheners on clearance and got 16 bags of them for free. It was a successful trip I must say. Now, I'd write more, but I'm pretty sure I hear Alivia laughing upstairs, which would be a first, and that means Shawn is playing with her and I have to see this!