Treasure box at home!

Potty training continues to be a struggle, and it's been hard not to laugh at the people who suggested that maybe Isaac would be potty trained by the time Brooke is born (and they say it like they believe it would really happen!) Isaac does continue to make great progress, and we've come a long way since just last summer. He can stay dry fairly well, as long as we're the ones who tell Isaac it's time to use the potty and make him sit there until he goes. I think his biggest problem is he's not listening to his body.

Poo has been another issue. At school, if Isaac goes poo on the potty he gets to pick a surprise toy out of their Treasure box that he gets to keep as his very own! Not long ago it was the Speed Racer car. Then recently he brought home a Spiderman bouncy ball because he stayed dry the entire time at school in his big boy underwear (or undy-wear, as Isaac calls them).

The only poos he's done at home have been teeny tiny turds that get stuck in his bottom cheeks, so when he sits down on the toilet they fall in. He's always just as surprised as we are, but since it is poo in the potty, we count it. We decided that to get Isaac to really go poo on the potty here at home, maybe we could do our own Treasure box.

Yesterday Dan didn't have to be in to work until late, so he spent the morning talking to Isaac and talking the subject to death that if he went poo on the potty that day, after work he'd stop by the store and pick up a small Lego's Power Miners set for his Treasure box present. Isaac didn't have any Lego's yet, but he really wanted some. But then Isaac complained that he didn't want a Treasure box toy, that he didn't want to be potty trained, and on and on.

Mid-afternoon Isaac and I are in the living room and he tells me, "I have to go". I asked where? He said he had to go poo! So I hurried him upstairs and we got him on the toilet, and I was afraid it was going to be another time where he says he has to go just as he's going and that there wouldn't be enough time to get him on the toilet. But he did it!

Isaac did a real poo on the potty!!!!!

Dan got home from work after Isaac was asleep, but we told him that in the morning when he woke up he could have the Lego toy. At 5am I noticed Isaac's bedroom light was on, but he did great to stay in his room until 6am like he's supposed to. At 6am we all got up and went downstairs and Isaac was thrilled with his new Lego toy! Daddy and Isaac had a great time putting it together, and we're hoping this was a great incentive to get him to poo on the potty regularly. We're going to put together a bucket filled with little Dollar Tree toys and make that his real Treasure box for going poo on the potty.