Firsts–Toilet Training Twins

There have been a lot of “firsts” lately, so I have done a few posts about “firsts” for our little (big) boys….

Today we officially started toilet training!

Benjamin has been ready to toilet train for about 2 months now, but as we went on a camping trip, we decided it best to wait until we got home…. long drives, camping a distance from the toilet and things like that. Since getting home (4 days ago) we think Ethan is showing signs of readiness now too. He is more willing to sit on the toilet, and even told me “doing wee wees in my nappy” 2 days ago. So the adventure begins……

Yesterday we went to the shops and bought some cardboard (boys chose their own colours) and stickers to make our toilet training sticker chart. This morning we made and decorated the charts. They get a sticker every time they do a wee/poo in the toilet or potty. Once they’ve done 5 (shown by the star), they get their first prize (a toy they chose yesterday). Then they continue on. Another prize at the next star, and at the moon. We will add more ‘prize points’ as they get closer.

 

Ethan showing his underwear by the chart….

Ben showing his underwear..

Both boys have done very well. It is currently nap time (and I think by some miracle they are actually napping today!!) and they have been toilet training for 4-5 hours this morning.

Ben has done 5 wees in the toilet and already collected his first prize – a Roary the Racing Car torch (flashlight). He did not wet his pants all morning (yay for Ben), but he did he did do a poo on the bathroom floor, without pants on after he had done a wee in the toilet . We put it in the toilet, but he was a bit upset about the poo, but we tried to make a positive out of it and hope he will try and poo in the toilet tomorrow.

Ethan has done 3 wees on the toilet this morning and is well on the way to collecting his first prize. He has had two accidents. One was a poo/wee together and the second just a wee. The second time he was in a ‘time out’ (for not playing nice with Ben) and crying his little heart out about the fact that he was in trouble, then suddenly he stopped crying and said “oh, wee wees coming” and there he was sitting in a puddle on the floor. It is a good thing that he recognised that he was weeing, and he was praised for that and cleaned up.

We are trying to make this a very positive experience for the boys, and so far they are doing well. They love their sticker chart and all the praise they are getting. I hope it continues….

Just for my own records, we are using pullups/training pants for day time naps and initially for day time outings, though we are trying not to go out for a couple of days. We are also using Huggies change mats for them to sit on in the car and pram, just in case of little accidents while wearing underwear. At night we are using Huggies “Nappy Pants” – similar to a pullup, but a little more absorbent (as far as i can tell). We have completely gotten rid of any kind of nappy (diaper) that involves them laying down to put it on. They are now all under pant style pull up type nappies.

Such big boys