Day 1 of serious potty training

First thing in the morning I put him on the potty and then into big boy underwear. Every 20 or 30 minutes I say, "Do you have to go potty?" he says "no" most of the time but a few minutes later say "Oh-oh!" and we'd clean up the mess, change him into new underwear and try again. When he says, "I have to go!" we get him to the potty in time and celebrate! I pack a bag with a couple pairs of pants and underwear just in case. We get dressed to go to our swim class, get all the way over there, park and walk to the JCC only to find that it's closed for the Yom Kippur. Oy Vey, I was out of the loop somehow this time, but you think they would announce "Hey, we'll be closed next week" for the Shikse in the class.

On the way back to the car Skyler had his first accident of the day. He seems a little embarrassed to have a pee-pee pant accident happen in public. I tell him that it's no problem, accidents happen and when we get to the car I put clean underwear and pants on him. Then we drive home, park the car and walk over to Golden Gate Park and into the Japanese Tea Garden. As soon as we pay our $3.50 and get in the gate I say, "let's get over to the bathroom", he tells me that he doesn't have to go but I insist and take him to the restrooms. He can't go so I pull up his pants and we start to walk around. The first pagoda and Skyler says "Oops, Mommy I went pee-pee!” Back to the bathroom to change and off we go through the gardens. Five minutes later "Oh, oh!" We don't have anymore dry pants or underwear with us so I tell him that we have to go home and change but that we can probably come back later in the day, after nap time. He hates that idea and decides that he'll walk around for a little while with pee-pee pants.

Well, you get the idea, sometimes he would realize that he had to go and sometimes not. Later we went to run errands and I brought the potty seat with us in the car. He said "I have to go!" and I pulled over and sat him on the potty. While shopping at Target he had another accident but we just finished our shopping and I changed him in the car. Lots of accidents but some success with lots of praise and we’ll try again tomorrow!