Potty Training

These past few weeks I have been Potty Training Gideon! That has been a very exciting chore! I was just starting to think that my efforts were not doing any good when I found Gideon in the bathroom with his bears sitting on the toilet! Here is the story.. Every time that I asked Gideon where the potty goes he would say in the toilet upstairs. He would even say, "Mama Potty" when I would ask him, "What do you say when you need to go potty?" The only problem is, he does not tell me that he needs to go to the potty until after he has wet his pants. Gideon will come up to me and say, "Uh-oh Big No No, Pants wet!" Oh the challenges of being a mother! Then a few changes started happening. Gideon one day actually told me that he needed to go to the potty, but I was busy feeding Jeremiah, so I told Gideon to run to the potty and go. He did and when I put Jeremiah down and went to the bathroom, there was Gideon with a big grin on his face and squirting the wall across from the potty! A few days later, Gideon said that he needed to go poop. I took him into the bathroom and he went. About 30 min. later when we were in his room playing, he all of a sudden said, "Mama, Bear poop!" and he grabs his bear and takes the bear into the bathroom to sit on the potty. Gideon then stayed in the bathroom and taught his bears how to go potty! I am glad that my efforts are paying off and that Gideon now thinks that it is fun to go potty and to teach his bears to go as well!