Potty Training Update

(39 Months)

It's been about three weeks since Wild One stopped wearing a diaper for his nap.  He decided that it was time to stop wearing diapers.  I told him that if he had a dry diaper for five naps in a row, we'll stop wearing diapers.  Well, then we went to visit his cousin Buddy (who's three days younger) and Buddy told Wild One that he doesn't wear diapers for naps when he's at school.  That did it.  When we got back home, Wild One sang "No more diapers for me."  So we tried it.  He peed.  We tried it again the next day.  It was dry!  Could this be a fluke?  We tried on day three, it was dry!  Day four?  Dry!  Woo hoo!!!  We are done with diapers for naps!  Your time is running out Pampers.  Day five?  It was wet.  Ohhh.  Well, I guess I celebrated too soon.  Days six through fifteen?  Dry!

Wild One doesn't like sleep, especially naps.  An average nap is about 50 minutes.  A good nap is when he makes it all the way to 60 minutes, I can count on two hands how many times in 39 months that has actually happened.  The reason I didn't want to stop using diapers for nap time was because I didn't want him to loose any precious nap sleep (ok, and I didn't want to lose my precious mommy time).  I was also afraid he'd overuse the "I have to pee" line to keep getting out of bed.  He does.  In fact, he's peed on the potty six times before falling asleep for nap on two occasions.  This kid can squeeze out just enough pee so that I'll say to myself, "humph, he really did have to pee."

When he does have to pee, he calls out, I come over and he walks (leisurely) from his room to go to the bathroom (we still use the Bjorn potty chairs).  He tries to start a conversation, but I'm trying the 123 Magic method, of not responding so that he doesn't feel like he can take all day.  Then I walk him back to his bed.  He usually falls asleep after the third or fourth time of peeing on the potty.  The major downside to him becoming more independent, is that where nap time used to be dedicated to getting the bills paid, mopping, doing dishes, folding laundry, making phone calls, looking up projects/recipes... now it's stop and go, stop and go (no pun intended).

It's amazing, that waiting for him to be ready made this process go very smoothly (again, no pun intended).

Potty Training Little Miss (Days Four and Five)- Those aren't raisins!

(27 Months)

I called the pediatrician today to find out if we should be attempting something different with Little Miss's lack of drinking (and consequently few pees).  We were recommended to continue offering her drinks throughout the day, limit salty foods (salt will retain water in the body), give her drying foods (like peanut butter), offer her high-water content foods (watermelon, grapes, apples...), and smoothies.  That's what we've been doing and it hasn't worked.  She said not to worry then.  OK, no worrying- check!

Wild One is still being timed, every half hour I put him on the potty (sometimes with a tantrum and on those blissful other times without a tantrum).  He's still mostly like clockwork, except for poop.  That happens at random times throughout the day, there's no pattern it's completely sporadic.  He's still insistent that he doesn't have to pee, while he's actually peeing.

Little Miss keeps trying to make it to the potty in time, but seems to fall short by a few feet.  Most of the time when she reacts to an urge to pee, she winds up peeing within a couple of seconds.  She's trying so hard though.  I wish I could help her get to the potty in time, but it never fails, she always pees when I'm in the process of helping Wild One with something.

It would be so helpful if they would just tell me, preferably at least a minute or two notice, that they have to pee.  Of course it would also be helpful if they wouldn't make such a huge mess at meal/snack times.  Does anyone else's kids get food on their bums while eating?  It would be really helpful if they would nap longer than an hour (as I'm typing this Wild One still hasn't fallen asleep, and he's supposed to wake up soon).

Today (day five), we had our first outing in big boy and big girl underwear.  On Fridays we have a standing play date with a good friend and her incredible little girl.  This week it was my friend's turn to host at her house.  My stress level rose, the kids are going to pee and poop everywhere, I just know it.  When we arrived, she put me at ease.  My friend has an easy-going, calming effect.  Everything started out fine.  Wild One went on the potty at the half hour mark and peed (whew!).  I knew Little Miss wouldn't pee, and she didn't.  Then about 40 minutes into the visit, I noticed big raisins on the floor.  That's odd.  I went to go pick them up when I realized those aren't raisins!  I quickly scooped Little Miss up and put her on the potty.  Grabbed some wipes and started grabbing the trail that led to the potty, while my very sweet friend kept telling me not to worry about it and to take care of Little Miss (she grabbed some wipes and started wiping down the areas where the pellets fell).  I cleaned up Little Miss, her potty, changed her into clean underwear, washed our hands and - uh oh, where's Wild One?

You know don't you?  Well, let's just say we had a repeat of the above except with the boy this time.  Aaagghh.  This time, there was no poop trail though.  Cleaned up the boy, the potty, changed into clean underwear, washed our hands and the remaining hour went smoothly.  Wild One had another timed pee.  My friend and I got to chat and catch up, while watching the little ones play.  The three kiddos had a fun time playing together, especially in the pantry.  They are so funny.  There is a house full of toys, full, and they are playing with groceries in the pantry.  Those three have vivid imaginations.  I love our play dates.

Potty Training Little Miss (Day Three)

(27 Months)

Today was the day that made me 

ask the question, "Why am I doing this?"

Seriously.  There has to be a better way.  Today was one of those days that some of you, unfortunately, can empathize with.  I have a massive shooting pain running through my neck and down my back from today.

Potty training Wild One has been wonderful at times and downright frustrating at times.  Today was filled with the latter.  I've been putting Wild One on the potty every half hour, even if he resists, because he has to pee (even though he adamantly says he doesn't have to pee, even while he's peeing he'll say he doesn't have to pee).  The books say by day three he'll recognize when he has to pee.  The books say this!  We're on day ten!

Where we live we can see the rain coming in sheets.  It's been unusually hot and humid (which makes it perfect easy-to-aggravate-Mommy weather).  Then all of a sudden we saw across the pond the dark clouds, the wind pick up, the sun take cover behind the clouds.  Uh oh, quick get everything (potty related) into the house.  Wouldn't you know it by the time I got everything and both kids into the house it was pee time?!

Within minutes, Wild One peed across the foam tiles lining our playroom. The rage builds (I'm not proud, but it's true). While I cleaned up the mess and his potty, he peed AGAIN on the foam tiles!  Now, I'm in full blown crazy mode.  I'm actually furious with a two-year old for peeing on the floor (which sounds ludicrous now as I type this, but the stress pains in my face and back are still rampant).  Wait, there's more.  Now, Little Miss starts having a HUGE pee on the floor.  I pick her up and fly her straight to the potty, pee flowing the entire way.  I'm livid, I'm fuming.  I'm a crazy mom.  Now, here's the kicker!  While I'm cleaning the third pee in less than five minutes, the sun starts shining again.  The sun starts shining!  We could have waited this out outside!

The rest of the day consisted of misses and forced catches (meaning we only caught them because I put them on the potty).  I'm not proud of myself today.  I need to handle this better.  Why doesn't someone write a book about the real adventures of potty training?  Not this garbage of - oh, I potty trained my son in a day.  It only took me two days and we were through with diapers.  Or my favorite, one day he just decided that he wanted to go on the potty and we were done with diapers.

Potty Training Little Miss (Day Two)

(27 Months)

Woo hoo, she peed on the potty!  Little Miss will do these mad dashes to the potty, sit down for just a few seconds and then pop off to start playing again.  She'll do this with such determined intensity that I'm always certain that this is the time that she'll pee on the potty, but no.  Then, she did it!  Little Miss peed on the potty.

She still is not drinking enough.  I'm still trying everything I can think of to get her to drink more, it's not working though.  Her nap diaper was barely wet and no poop.  Where's the poop?

Around 3:30, she did one of her mad dashes and she had a panicked look on her face.  It was awful, she was worried or scared.  I kept my hand on her knees and sang "Wheels on the bus" and kept intentionally forgetting the words to try to get her mind off of what was happening.  It took a long time, but she pooped on the potty!  She pooped on the potty!  Woo hoo.

Little Miss had three misses today, which is a lot for her since she doesn't drink enough to make a lot of pee.  She waits until the last second to run to the potty and often pees just a few feet from the potty.

Update on potty training Wild One - he loves his big boy underwear.  He has one or two misses a day, he doesn't poop in the potty, and we still need to remind him after about a half hour to pee on the potty.

Potty Training Little Miss (Day One)

(27 Months)

I think that is definitely the wrong title for this post.  There was absolutely no potty training going on.  Before you think "wow, that's fantastic the little one potty trained herself after watching her brother last week." That isn't what happened.  Little Miss has always, always, drank very little (even as a premie newborn).  Even today, we're lucky if she drinks 16 oz of fluid a day (usually just milk, however if she finishes all of her milk than we offer her water).  I knew that today was going to be a bit of a challenge, since her diapers are usually pretty dry, even after three hours they are barely wet. However, she only peed four times today (twice on the floor, once in a cotton training pant and once in her nap diaper).  I don't know how this is going to work.  We offered her Pediasure (she loves the chocolatey flavor), we offered her juice, water with lemon, water without lemon, however she still barely drank anything all day.  Her snacks consisted of high water content fruit (grapes, pineapple, Mandarin oranges, apples), plus whole wheat banana bread (to make her thirsty), and still very little pee.  More importantly than the potty training, I'm beginning to have concerns about her kidneys.  How can it be healthy to drink and pee so little?

Potty Training Wild One (Day Seven)

(27 Months)

What a great training day!  We're back on track.  He only had two pee misses and of course our customary poop in the underwear.  We even did a really quick errand together!  We went to Target this morning to pick up some more big boy underwear, flushable wipes and Play-Doh.  Before we left, I threw a change of underwear and shorts, and a package of wipes in my purse.

When we got there, we went straight to the bathroom and he didn't pee.  Then we raced past the women's clothing section (ooohh, they have their Spring line out- as we dashed past cute shirt after shirt, I kept reminding myself to focus- we're on a mission, get in and get out without dilly dallying).  Wild One had a fun time racing through the store with me, grabbing the wipes, choosing the big boy underwear (Thomas the Train, and Buzz Lightyear), and picking out his favorite Play-Doh colors.  Of course when I go to Target, I never come out with just what is on my list.  Right next to the Play-Doh was an Aqua Doodle Travel Mat.  Hmmm, maybe this will help entice him to sit on the potty for a few extra minutes.  We paid for our goodies, and tried going to the bathroom again (no luck).  Hmmm, I need to either start training him to sit on the big potty or get one of those little potty inserts for the big potty.

As soon as we got home, he peed on his little potty.  From then on, every half hour I reminded him to sit on the potty (I figured asking doesn't work, because he's in his "no" phase) and he peed!  When he didn't have to pee yet, we still had him sit down on the potty for two minutes and then he could go play.  I'd keep checking in with him every five minutes until he peed on the potty.  He did have two misses though.  Now, I just need him to start communicating with me when he has to pee (instead of me reminding him each time).

RECAP OF WEEK ONE-  I was dreading potty training.  As I mentioned, I half-jokingly tried to convince a few of my friends to start a potty training business (and they could use my kidabunks as their practice subjects) and I tossed around the idea of enrolling them in pre-school so that they would have to do the bulk of the work.  It started out wonderfully, he peed on the potty, he was happy, we did a lot of fun activities outside.  He had his little two year old moments of shouts of "no potty, no sit" and refusing to sit on the potty.  We kept doing fun sensory activities.  We had a horrible miss-filled day yesterday and then today was fantastic.

My take away is this- I need to try to remind myself that he's two.  Play is one of his top priorities, peeing on the potty is somewhere between having to take a nap and cleaning up his toys.  If he misses, he misses.  I need to let it roll off my back- however, this is soooo much easier said than done (especially when cleaning up your fifth miss).

Potty Training Wild One (Day Six)

(27 Months)

I know I'm not supposed to say this, most moms would never tell anyone the pains of potty training.  I've read countless blogs and articles about how lovely everything went, how their children basically potty trained themselves.  Those are probably the same moms who have children that sleep through the night and take three hour naps.

So... how wrong would it be if I enroll them in preschool so that someone else has to do the bulk of the work?  That wouldn't be terrible, right?  He had five misses today!  Aggghhhh.  Discouraged, deflated, frustrated, were just a few of the emotions that I was feeling today.

Potty Training Wild One (Day Five) & iPhone Apps

(27 Months)

This has been a wonderful week.  It definitely was the opposite of what I expected.

Today we started putting Wild One on the potty every 15 minutes.  At first I was against this, I thought it would drive him crazy having to sit on the potty even if he doesn't have to go.  So far, it's been working though.  Almost every time that the timer went off he had to pee (sometimes it was just a little bit of pee though).  Of course, while I was vacuuming their breakfast crumbs, he had a look on his face so I asked him if he pooped or was pooping, of course I received the usual "noooo".  Then I checked and their it was.  Well, at least it came out at 10:00, instead of at 12:00.

Fast forward to after nap (yes, we still only nap for about an hour - once a day) and it turns out that I jinxed myself.  Now if he doesn't have to pee at that moment, or for the following five minutes, it's all about bribery to keep him on the potty.  The books, Magna Doodle, chalk board and Play-Doh stopped working.  So, I brought out the all-time favorite thing that they love to play with, but are very rarely given the opportunity to- my phone.  We have several games on there that I really like-



He now kicks and screams if the timer goes off and it's time to sit on the potty (even if he has to pee, he still resists sitting on the potty).  This is how I imagined potty training.  Oh, how I long for four days ago when this was a wonderful experience.

Wild One and Little Miss say adorable kidabunk-isms throughout the day.  Wild One's latest is, "I make yellow (pee)!"

Potty Training Wild One (Day Four)

(27 Months)

A quick update while they are napping:  Wild One outdid himself this time, he held onto his poop all the way until we put a diaper on him for nap time!  That's right, he didn't poop for over five hours!  He did put himself on the potty three out of four times though.  This morning he had his first huge miss while we were having circle time.  I was a bit taken aback by it, I thought by now he knew what it felt like when he had to pee.  I'm not sure if it was from holding in his poop or he was so engrossed in playing that he forgot that he wasn't wearing a diaper.

Potty Training Wild One (Day Three) & Fun with Shaving Cream

(26 Months)

Little Miss has been asking to sit on the potty.  Now, I know, and she knows, that the only reason she's asking to sit on the potty is because her brother is on the potty.  Yes, we're at that stage of 'whatever he has must be better than what I have'.

Today, my plan was not to remind Wild One at all to use the potty.  I wanted to let him fully realize (even if he doesn't make it to the potty on time) when to go.  That was my plan.  However, while recognizing that he obviously has to pee, I was only able to hold out for about five seconds before asking if he would like to sit on the potty.  He did wind up going on his own four times, but the rest of the time either Grandpa or I prompted him.

Are you ready for this?  The little stinker (ha! another poop pun) held out until 10:10 before pooping today, a full extra half hour of agonizingly waiting and watching and following him around with a paper towel.  We kept asking him to sit on the potty, sometimes he would, sometimes he ran the other way.  He had a miss before he pooped, probably because he didn't want to sit on the potty.

After he pooped, aaahhh, it was time to set up the water table for some bubble fun.  They really enjoyed making bubbles, scooping bubbles and trying to blow the bubbles off their hands.  While they were taking their naps, I decided when they woke up it was going to be serious messy messy time.  I broke out the shaving cream, paints, markers and the big roll of butcher paper.

This was our first exposure to playing with shaving cream.  There are so many wonderful activities that I'm looking forward to doing with shaving cream, but we don't have all of the necessary materials yet. So I decided to let them first get used to playing with the white, fluffy, creamy, squishy, stuff (or as Little Miss calls it, "the white").  We said good bye to the bubbles in the water table and then the kids took turns shaking the shaving cream bottle (on sale at Target for 97 cents), and then it was playtime.  I squirted the shaving cream into the lower basin of the water table and onto their hands.  Then we hid some of their smaller toys in the shaving cream and tried to find them by scooping piles of cream away with play spoons and spatulas.  They made train tracks and drove their trains around, they had their little fish swim in the soft foam, they carried piles of the foam from the water table to a bucket of water that I had set out for them (just in case we had a melt down and didn't like the foam on our hands or toys- which didn't happen).

 As you can see they got the foam EVERYWHERE.

The shaving cream was lots of fun.  I know we'll be doing that again- I love those free form activities.  Here's some shaving cream, a bucket of water and some tiny toys, have fun!

We then decided it was time to paint.  We mixed together the primary colors to make orange, green and purple (we add white to our purple, because Wild One calls it black because the purple is so dark), and then Little Miss loves pink so we made some pink.  It's amazing, we've made color blends dozens of times and every time I get the same enthusiastic reaction "wow Momma, that's _____ (fill in the color)!"  I love it, I hope they are always this easy to impress.

In the second picture (above), Wild One was painting and said, "look Grandpa a letter D!"  

I don't know if he meant to paint a D or he was noticing that the shape looks like a D.  

Now, he's painting a boy.  

 He decided to paint shoes on his feet and then put paint on his hands to make hand prints.

While the paint dried, they took Grandpa on a picture walk 

through a photo album of our vacation.

Then out came the markers to add those finishing touches to their paintings.

Little Miss has been experimenting with drawing with more than one marker at a time.

We were really messy, and it was hot out, so out came the hose.  The squeals of delight that came from Wild One were priceless.  He was so happy, especially when he started saying, "wet Grandpa".  

 

Naked time potty training has been a lot of fun.  It's pretty much play all day outside from 7 until 5 (except for our nap), try unsuccessfully not to remind Wild One about sitting on the potty and that's about it.  Tomorrow we are going to introduce Wild One to underwear (after he poops).  I have a feeling this is where it is going to start to feel like potty training (then of course we'll work our way to getting fully dressed, start taking short walks and then a quick trip to the store).

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Potty Training Wild One (Day Two)

(26 Months)

Was yesterday a fluke?  We followed the same morning pattern (woke up, changed Wild One into a cotton training pant, fed him, brought them outside to play), yet it took him over 2 1/2 hours to poop.  He asked a few times to "change diaper" (I'm assuming he was asking to be put into a diaper), he was walking funny (as if he was trying to hold in his poop), he just wasn't comfortable and he refused to sit on the potty.  Finally after hours of waiting, he made a mad dash to the stairs on the slide and started to squat.  I was maybe two seconds too late, the poop hit the ground.  I still put him on the potty (which is sitting about two feet away from the stairs on the slide), and he managed to pee and poop a little more.

Right after he pooped he felt much better.  I felt awful about not putting him back in a diaper so that he could poop.  At the hour and a half mark, I was debating with myself to just scrap the whole thing and let him stay in diapers.  It's not easy seeing your little guy in any type of discomfort, but what's worse is that this one I could have prevented.  He did it though.  He pooped, not on the potty (close, but he clearly wasn't going to the potty).  Sigh of relief (ha, another pun!).

We spent the day playing with bubbles in the water table, trying to learn to stay seated at the picnic table while eating, using rubber stamps, enjoying pretend play, drawing with markers and dot markers, dotting in circles for the letter E, in general having fun in the sun!

Wild One was awesome with his peeing.  When he demonstrated that he needed to pee, Grandpa and I reminded him to sit on the potty (that's all).  There were even three times throughout the day and evening that he went to the potty on his own.

I'm still putting him in diapers for naps and nighttime, I'm not taking that away until I'm certain he's ready.  If I can get him diaper-free during the day, except for naps and nighttime- I'm good.  In fact, I'll take that for as long as needed (ok- I rescind that, I don't want him going into fifth grade with a pull-up on at night).

Potty Training Wild One & Fun with Water

(26 Months)

Last week after bath time, I was changing my daughter and my son was running around the house having his happy naked time. Then, he came up to me and said “pee!”. Are you ready for this? I said, “don’t pee! Go to the bathroom and use the potty.” He did. When I saw that he peed in the potty, I knew that it was  time.  How did we get here so fast?  


I've been dreading potty training- I've even half-jokingly been hinting to friends that they should start up a potty training service and they can have mine to practice on.  So, before embarking on this sure-to-be-overwhelming adventure, I did what most moms do today, I read various different methods, Toilet Training in Less Than a Day, Potty Train in Just One Day, The No-Cry Potty Training Solution, Diaper Free Before Age 3, Potty Train in 3 Days, plus too many internet articles to name.  After reading and reading, and reading (and delaying and delaying and delaying), I thought- I'm sure my mom didn't do this.  So, I called her and she laughed.


This was my mom's method, during the summer time she put me in a sundress and nothing else (without a diaper), and let me loose in the backyard (huge fenced in yard with plenty to do- swing sets, monkey bars, sprinkler, sand area).  She gave me a lot to drink, and when it was time to pee, I peed in a big bowl (back in my day we didn't have training potties).  It was stress free, it was natural, it definitely didn't involve reading days of material.


I also talked about this with my friend who has a daughter who is three weeks older than my twins.  She potty trained her daughter in three days a little over a month ago.  She followed pretty much the same method as my mom, and reassured me that it wasn't going to be this horrible, pee and poop filled nightmare that I have convinced myself of.  Her daughter got the hang of peeing on the potty by the middle of the second day and my the end of day three was going pee on the potty all by herself.  On day four, my friend took her to an amusement park!  She's so brave.


My plan is to follow something like what my mom did with me and my friend did with her daughter.  We don't have a big fenced in backyard, but we do have a partially covered lanai (no grass, only brick pavers).  I brought the hose into the lanai (for anytime Wild One has a miss).  I also brought the little potty outside, a full container of diaper wipes, hand wipes, paper towels, cloth towels and a plastic grocery bag (to hold all of the trash).  The night before I filled up our bottom shelf in the fridge with prepared milk cups, sliced grapes and apples, yogurt already dished into two bowls and two cups of iced-tea (right now Wild One really likes Pineapple Lycée - it's very sweet, even though it's unsweetened).  That way all I have to do is grab and go.


When the kids woke up, we told them how excited we are that today starts Wild One's potty time.  We told Wild One that he's going to wear a cotton training pant while he eats first breakfast, and then he has naked time all the way until nap time.  I thought he was going to love this, but he's at the age of "no", so it  wasn't as joyfully received as I imagined.  Right after Hubby fed them first breakfast (a puree of sweet potato, blueberry and apples), we brought them outside.  Wild One usually, usually, goes poopy within the first hour after first breakfast.  Even so, as soon as he went outside, we took off his training pant and then I went into spotter mode.  I knew he was going to poop, but when.  The minutes started clicking away and no poop, no pee.  He doesn't have any tells for poop.  Almost an hour goes by and nothing.  I'm still watching him like a hawk and trying to pay attention to Little Miss who keeps asking me to make a teeny tiny airplane out of Play-doh.  Then he tries to sneak under the slide, I quickly grab him and he has an uh-oh look on his face.  As that look registers in my brain what's about to happen, a tiny pellet hits the floor.  I hoist him up and plop (ha ha) him onto the potty as more tiny pellets now go spraying (gross I know) across the floor.  I act (the Grammy goes to ME) all excited that he almost pooped on the potty.  Then as I'm clapping, he starts peeing on the potty.  We have a quick clean up session, which is a breeze because I have everything I need right next to me.  Toss out the garbage and continue playing.


We pretended the hose was a train track and we chugged along.  We kicked and threw the balls around. We had our dance party.  Then Wild One asked to play with his water table, so I filled that up and we started splashing and pouring and seeing what floats and what sinks.

During snack time, he started showing signs that he has to pee.  I asked him if he wants me to read to him while he sits on the potty (Wild One has always loved books).  He sat on the potty and as I read, he peed. Woo hoo!  He asked to watch me pour it out and said, "bye bye pee, see you later pee."  So cute.  OK, two for three (or two for two if we are just counting pees).

Grandpa and I kept offering Wild One iced-tea, but he wasn't drinking (which is unusual for him, he usually drinks a lot of water or iced-tea throughout the day).  Right after he had lunch, he looked like he had to pee, so I asked if he would sit on the potty and Daddy would mould a football out of Play-Doh for him (that worked).  While he was on the potty, in a soft little voice, he said "look Daddy, I peed".   Woo hoo!  Three pees for three pees.

For naps and night time, we decided to put them back in a diaper.  They don't sleep enough as it is, and I really don't want to interrupt the little amount of sleep that they do get.  I'm SO glad that I put him in a diaper, he peed and pooped during nap time.

After nap time, Grandpa and I brought the kids back outside (removed Wild One's diaper and cleaned him up) and they started playing immediately with their water table.  Little Miss asked "where bubbles go?"  I showed her how to swish her hand under the water to make them appear really fast.  Wild One heard the splashing and came running over.  This turned into a splash party.

I hope she always likes cleaning.

Yes, that is a picture of them
washing their own dishes.  

Wild One actually sat down on the potty himself, without needing to be prompted, and peed!  This is unbelievable, he was definitely ready for this.  The next time he looked like he needed to pee, he was in the middle of playing by the water table, so we needed to prompt him.


By the end of the day, he was six for six pees on the potty!  We're so proud of him.  Tomorrow I'm hoping to do some messy art work, since we never got to it today (Play-Doh, all of the balls, and the water table were the favorites).  I also want to have Wild One practice pulling up and down a cotton training pant (after he pees on the potty, we'll try a few times throughout the day).  Let's keep our fingers crossed and hope that day two goes just as well.