Potty Training Mayhem

I can't say I have been trying REALLY hard to potty train Collin, but he took an interest and I just went with it. He started before we left Virginia. One day, he said he wanted to go potty on the potty, we took off his diaper and he went. A few days later, I decided to let him try it again. We left his diaper off while we were at home and he ran to the potty to go almost every time, with very few accidents. I was impressed! I thought to myself, he is going to be SO much easier than his sister, who had accidents for over 6 months and then when she turned 3, she magically was potty trained.

If I keep a diaper off of him, he goes in the potty. We tried putting big boy pants on him, but he pees in them. He only has gone #2 a couple of times, he usually waits until I put a diaper on him, that little snook. He loves to pee outside. This also started in Virginia. He would stick is stuff over the deck and pee out to the lawn which was a story below. Well, he has kept this same habit here, but standing on the concrete slab we have outback and peeing into the yard. He seems to really enjoy it, but it drives me crazy. He won't pee standing up inside, he likes to climb onto the potty like some kind of spider monkey. It looks really uncomfortable, but whatever works, right? I just don't get why he can pee upright outside, but not inside?

Well this brings me to today. Ugh. A couple of times now, he has peed into containers, like his lego bucket after he dumps everything out. Today, he took his chocolate milk (unbeknownst to me) upstairs where no food or drink is allowed on the carpet. He usually comes back down stairs to go potty, even though we have one up there? Today, he decided to open his sippy, dump the whole glass of chocolate milk all over the carpet, and then proceeded to pee into his sippy cup. Alana then calls me up to scene and I get up there, he is holding his sippy cup, with the pee, so proud and smiling to hand it to me. Behind him, he has hidden the chocolate milk mess by covering it up with a big tractor toy! So he knew the chocolate milk part was wrong, but thought he was being good peeing into the cup, rather than on the carpet.

All I can say, it was disgusting and not all that surprising. I reminded him, no drinks upstairs and he needs to go potty ONLY on the potty. He such a boy in his mannerisms and thought processes. Alana may have been hard to potty train, but at least she wasn't so gross about it.

 I think it is time I start working a little bit harder with Collin and looking forward to putting these days past me!