Potty Update!

Saturday morning we started out with a bang!

We had three boxes of loot and treats and presents (no candy), and we did away with the M&M's. Each one googled over their box and touched and ahhhh'd over all their presents. They had twenty each, and they could see through some of the bags, and the other bags were like Christmas for them, bags and bow complete. While they were looking everything over, we told them that they could have a present if they pee'd in the potty and wore big kids underwear. If they didn't pee in the potty .... they could not choose a present.

We let them choose one present for enticement after they looked them all over. They were ecstatic, and I had my fingers crossed. Meg and Jay instantly had to go pee, and both got praised and we clapped and danced with them in the air and let them choose another present for peeing in the potty.

Sam, on the other hand, chose to pee in his pants. We only frowned and didn't make a big deal of it and told him when he was a big boy and pee'd in the potty, he could choose a present. It was 11:30 before Sam chose to pee in the potty .... and from that moment on, Sam pee'd on the potty and pooped too! He only had one accident, and that was while waiting for the potty, since they all wanted the big potty and not the little potty chairs.

Meg and Jay stayed dry all day and told us every time they had to potty.

Yes, I spent my entire day in the bathroom, and yes, they earned all their presents in one day, except for three. I had saved three for this morning to start the day off in the same manner as yesterday! Bribery gets you every where!

When you stop and think about it .... twenty bucks to potty train your kid! That's a piece of cake and well worth it. Maybe I should write a book on how to potty train triplets in two days or less! Sometimes I amaze myself .... ha~

This morning started off the same, and today everyone pottied and everyone has been dry all day. We even had the nerve to take them out to eat in underwear! Of course, we took along our little fold up Elmo potty seat in it's nifty little plastic bag. Everyone pee'd at the restaurant, and then we went to Sam's Club to poop. Community poop time at Sam's Club today instead of our usual Sunday afternoon free lunch with all the samples! Sam's Club has a family restroom, so we all went in, got out our Elmo seat and guess what? No one would poop! They all waited until we got home!

I can say now that my kiddo's are 99.99% potty trained and tomorrow they will wear big kids underwear to preschool and only wear a pull-up at night time for a while!

Yay for me! No more diapers!

Be Blessed Everyone!

Potty Training Weekend!

Starting in the morning ..... we are devoting our entire weekend to potty training! When I go to bed tonight I am going to pray for God to give me the strength to make it through the weekend.

I am ready! I have two baskets of little underwear. Ninety pair total. One basket for the boys, and a basket with pink underwear for Meg ... and a whole basket of treats to bribe them with.

You see, M&M's are not working. In fact, they are causing problems since the kids were outsmarting Marlboro Man and were loading up on candy instead of eating dinner. .... and since there are three of them and only two of us, and they can yell louder than we can, they were eating their fair share of M&M's several times a day.

I have my armour on, and I can do this! Today I went to "The Dollar Tree" store and got myself prepared. Everything in the store is a dollar, and I think I bought one of ever thing .... well almost. I bought 60 small items. Yes, that's sixty dollars, but we spend about that much in pull ups each week. I bought little cars and tractors, little animals, Cinderella's, pretty toothbrushes, little notebooks, mermaid lip gloss, new bowls and cups with Santa on them, and just about anything that looked enticing to a three year old. I bought nifty pretty little "present bags" and tonight I packaged all the new treats and put them all in a pretty big basket.

Here's the deal: NO pee in the potty, NO treat! Starting tomorrow we're going to the potty every hour on the hour, and they get to pick their very own present out of the basket. I have enough presents to take us through bedtime Sunday night. Granted, we're going to have a lot of cheap junk laying around, but come Monday morning, all the presents will be gone and we'll be in underwear.

This is serious business, and I do have one little minor problem that I need to fix. Somebody, and I won't name names, told Jay and Sam that they need to "shake it off" .... and being that they are only three years old, they think "shake it off" means shake their butts and they shake it all over the place! They shake it all over the floor, and they shake it all over the toilet, and when I tell them to stop, they turn towards me and shake it all over me too. I wonder who would have told them that!

Be Blessed Everyone ~