Potty trained!

Kendall & Kaleb simply amazed us at how easily they took to potty training. Back in February we purchased 2 potty chairs and set them out in the bathroom to introduce the kids to what they were. Kendall learned very quickly the muscles to use to make herself go...it took Kaleb a couple of months...he would sit for a few minutes, get up, look in the bowl and say "nope", sit back down, get up, look, say "nope", sit back down....and on and on. At this point, we were letting them wear underpants after dinner/before bathtime, but not attempting during the day. He eventually figured it out.

In the middle of June, there was a rainy/cold weekend where we had nothing planned, so we decided to put underpants on the kids after they woke up to see how they would do. Surprisingly, this was the last time that they wore a diaper during the day! We drove around all summer with a potty chair in the van just in case they had to go when we were not near a bathroom.

Kendall has had a few accidents, but Kaleb has done great right from the beginning! He started waking up from naps/nighttime with dry diapers, so in the middle of November he stopped wearing diapers all together. Kendall is still wearing them for naps/nighttime, but she is starting to wake up dry so pretty soon we will try her without a diaper during naps/night.

I think it was easy for them because they made it a competition. If one of them said they had to go the bathroom, you can bet the other one was right there trying to go to...we rewarded 1 M&M for #1, 2 M&Ms for #2 so they were both making sure that they got an M&M if the other one did.