On Jan. 8, 2010, we sent Jalen to daycare in underwear, not diapers! His school had suggested that we start and we were thinking the same thing since baby #2 is coming and we want to get Jalen off diapers. We knew the day had to come some time soon and we just had to suck it up and prepare ourselves to take the big step. He kept his pants dry on day 1 but then on day 2 had 3 accidents, i.e. wet/poopy pants. Now we've finished our 3rd full week of underwear training and he's doing really great. We take him to the bathroom to pee about every hour and we make him go #2 once or twice a day. He gets 2 treats for going #2 on the toilet. Every night, he gets to pick out which underwear to wear: cars? Thomas the tank engine? Elmo? We still put him in diapers during nap time and at night but lately he's been keeping his diaper dry through the night (10 - 12 hours).
The next big step for Jalen would be telling us that he needs to pee without us prompting him. He's already started doing that when he needs to be poop. Once he's able to go potty by himself then he'll gradate to preschool. That probably won't happen until he's around 3 years old but we're still so pleasantly surprised and proud of how great he's doing with potty training.
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