Potty Incident...

One of Mommy's biggest potty training fears came true!

Tonight, Alexander was getting ready for bed & we were just finishing up book time. Before quiet time he asked to go potty, so we head downstairs. Because he's a big boy, he likes some personal time when using the bathroom (understood).

I go into the kitchen to get a drink and he's finishing up. I hear the flush and him starting to put the toilet seat down. Then I just heard the nothing and then the loudest, highest screech ever! I knew exactly what he had done & ran into the bathroom! He slammed the toilet seat down on his penis. He was standing there screaming, crying, holding onto himself.

I picked him up expecting the worst. I went to get an ice-pack telling him that everything was fine but the poor kid was in so much pain. He kept saying "ouch Mommy" which broke my heart. I was truly was waiting for there to be lots of blood & swelling. Thankfully there was neither when I went to put the doggie ice-pack on.

Here I am standing in my kitchen with Alexander sitting on the counter, and there is this ice-pack in the shape of a dog just grinning at me. Mentally, I was telling the dog to stop laughing! I took a look at his penis and again there was no blood or swelling but the entire thing was instantly purple! It looked awful.

I told him I'd give him medicine and he immediately stopped crying. I had him poke and move things to see if it hurt and he seemed to be okay, despite the bruising. He had some medicine and we went back upstairs for quiet time. He was just fine...after one last check.

I headed back downstairs and the adrenaline must have worn off because my knees gave out and I slid down three stairs....whew! He woke up the next morning upset that he peed through his pull-up but I was ecstatic! He was able to pee (obviously a lot) and it didn't hurt...he would be just fine!

Potty Update...

Potty Update: This week has been a bit up & down with the potty training.

At school: he only had one accident at school this week and did very well.

At home: he's had a bit more accidents. We've also had a lot of situations where we've kept him in pull-ups due to long drives, etc and it's resorted to him forgetting he just has underwear on.
We've had one moment where he didn't want to go #2 on the potty and made for a messy change on Thursday night. Then on Sunday afternoon, after our long drive home from NH, he was just wearing underwear and pee'd in the living room.

Hopefully we get back on the bandwagon this week!

Potty Time...

Tonight, right after tubby time, Alexander said he wanted to use the big toilet. So he gets out his stool & up he goes.

This kid cracks me up because he's sitting up on the toilet and says "okay big pee c'mon!" He realizes I find it funny so he keeps saying it and cracking us both up now. Then he stops talking and says "big poo coming now". I wasn't sure if he was sure or not, but sure enough, here comes poo. (don't know why but at first this kind of grossed me out even though I have no issue changing messy diapers, but I got over it because I was happy for him)

He was very proud of himself that he went poo in the toilet! And because he went in the toilet, he got to put stickers on his Potty Chart which he's starting to get a bit more than before.

Potty Time...

We had another successful trip to the potty!

After tubby tonight, Alexander told us that he had to pee & wanted to pee on the toilet. He got right up there and peed right into the toilet - without incident.

He flushed & washed his hands. And because he did so well - he got stickers to go on his potty chart. Hopefully the first of many!

Another Milestone...

While Alexander has gone pee in the potty a few times at school, he has yet to pee in a potty at home. Every now & then the interest is there but it hasn't been constant.

Then tonight as we were getting ready for tubby, he wanted to sit on the potty. And after a few minutes he got excited and said "pee's coming Momma".

It was over before it began...but alas he peed in the potty!

And for the record, I did take a picture but I'll refrain from posting so he doesn't completely hate me when he's older.

Big Day...

Alexander had a big day today! And of course I didn't capture one moment of it on camera - next time!

• Potty: Alexander has been practicing sitting on the potty both at school & at home. There seems to be a diaper change/potty break time where all the kids sit on the potty for practice. Well, today Alexander actually did something about it: he used the potty to go pee! Ms. Debbie was pretty excited about it when telling me & then Alexander got excited about it. He kept saying 'pee mama pee'! How exciting - Alexander is becoming a little boy very quickly!
  
• Haircut: After I picked him up at school, I decided to take my chances to see if his good mood would carry over to getting his haircut. At first he was all about going to "tahhhgit" for a hotdog, but once we pulled up to the haircut place, he was super excited. We went in, he wanted help climbing into the chair, and even giggled when the hairdresser put on the robe. We brought in Monkey and he kept telling Monkey he was going to get a 'aaihcut'. She told him that she was going to spray his hair and then tickle him with the comb. He was FANTASTIC. He giggled, smiled & kept trying to tell Monkey about his haircut. Figures the one time I decide to go without a camera he's so much fun & adorably cute! The whole haircut was great, he was very cooperative, listened to her when she gave him direction, and genuinely liked sitting there. He also didn't mind the buzzer when she went to clean up the edges. A perfect haircut! And now he looks so handsome once again...

So after two big events, we went to Target for our usual hotdog & milk but afterwards went to the toy section and he picked out a little prize, a Rocket bathtub toy from the Little Einsteins (his new favorite) that he got to play with in tonight's tubby!