So, ya, didn't see this in my future. I don't like potty training. Waiting for that magical moment for everything to click.
Kai gives all indication that he's ready. I even wonder if he was trained in China. It's fairly unusual to not be on a shedule at his age from a Chinese orphanage. Frankly just too expensive and labour intensive to have kids not potty trained. To clarify, orphanage trained would be a whole line of kids sitting on little potties, possibly eating snacks and staying there until they've gone. Not like here where we want them to stop what they're doing and go potty on their own.
Anyways...
Today was the day. Kai and I spent four and a half hours with a timer and some candy. Don't judge it works. So Mr. Kai sat on the potty every 10 mins for four and a half hours. It wasn't me telling him to go, it was the timer. Plus there was candy. He held out for the whole time! No pee. There was a drop on the seat at one point but he just laughed about it. I do think some pee hit the water but I didn't see or hear it.
So while that magic moment didn't actually happen today he showed us he can really hold it a long time. He also learned today how to pull underwear down, use the stool, turn around, sit, adjust and make sure things were aimed properly and then wipe and get off the toilet and pull those undies up.
Those spiderman underwear are seriously adorable.
Along with our potty training he learned to hold the pencil properly and copy what I was doing on my paper. He used the cheerio book and showed some stellar sorting skills. He also willingly had a bath with Luk. He doesn't look so thrilled in the picture but really it went well.
We put him in a pull up and stopped the every ten minute thing because we had friends coming to meet Kai. He peed in the pull up of course but the moment they left he ran on his own to the toilet and pulled his pants and pull up down and got on the potty, on his own. Still, no visable pee but he wasn't asking for the candy and overall we saw that as a pretty successful start.
Pressure is on. He's registered for kindergarten. Five months left to get this mastered.
