Three for Three

Dear Sawyer,

Day 2 of official potty training! There were a total of four pee accidents today and guess what? Only 50% of them were yours! My day started waaaaaaay too early at 3:45am this morning when JieJie came running into my bedroom to tell me that she had peed in her bed. Daddy and I got up, showered her, blow-dried her hair and changed her sheets. We all climbed back into bed a little after 4am only to have GuhGaw come into our room at 4:30am and tell us that he had wet the bed. Seriously?!? Another shower, another change of sheets, a disgusting pile of laundry in the hamper room. It's the first time your siblings wet their beds in the same night and it's ironic that it happened right after you officially started potty training. You peed on yourself yesterday--were GuhGaw and JieJie feeling left out? Haha :-P

You had one accident while eating breakfast and another one after dinner. When you had to poop this afternoon, you told me, "I have to go sit on the toilet." Then you pooped in the toilet like a pro! But you didn't tell me whenever you had to pee and in fact, you had a straight-up tantrum this morning when I said you had to go potty. It had been an hour since your breakfast accident and I told you that it was time to go potty. You started crying and said, "I don't want to!" Then you sat down on my floor, crossed your arms, kept kicking your legs and cried for the next half hour. At one point, you actually stood up, ran over to your room, plopped down on your floor and continued your crossed arms-kicking legs cryfest there (why the sudden change of location?). I tried bribing you with rainbow chocolate, gummy bears and my iPad but you said no to it all and continued crying. I sat next to you the whole time and said I understood that going to the bathroom all of the time is annoying but you have to do it now that you're almost 3 years old. Whenever I tried to touch you, you swatted my hand away but eventually, you let me get close to you and you climbed into my lap, hugged my chest and stopped crying. My poor guy. I hate potty training but I know that it is no fun for you, either.

Love,
Mom

P.S. I still can't believe that when I washed the pee laundry today, it included clothes from all three of my kids! *sigh*