Updates on potty training

He is not wearing diapers at home anymore and there's been very minimal accidents. But the problem is, he is half-naked. Otherwise, he'll conveniently pee/poo in his pants. So next month onwards, I'll try to let him wear pants at home and keep reminding him to pee/poo. Also must teach him to pull down his pants whenever he needs to relieve himself.

Not much problem getting him to poo in the potty like before. I used to bribe him with vitamins, hehe....told him he could have a vitamin after doing his big business and that was very attractive to him. He loves his Pureen Kids colostrum chewies. Oh, and this morning, I had a good laugh. Right after he did his business, he stood up, looked into the potty and said "snake, ssss sssss..." Yes, indeed his poop looked like brown snakes! Haha, pardon me for describing my son's poop, I know it's very disgusting. Thousand apologies =P

I am now confident enough to let him go diaperless when we go for short outings. Of course it means more 'work' for me as I need to constantly bring him to the washroom, maybe every 90 minutes and get him to pee. But it's slowly working out for us, so I have no complains. =)

However, we'll be going on a 10 day holiday end of this month and I am not sure how this potty training will end up. From experience, when we went back to KL for a week plus, he seemed to 'forget' everything again and had a few accidents. Thus, for now, I'll just let things be and observe again when we come back next month =)

Stories from the bathroom

Joshie has recently started to lie on his back when he is in his little bath tub. He seems to enjoy it when the bottom part of his head is submerged into water. It's a form of relaxation for him.

"Aaahhhhh........this is life, mummy! Feels like I'm in a spa."

I know, i know......his bath tub is way too small for his long body. But I use less water when I fill up this little tub, as compared to our big one =) I can save water and money. Furthermore cheeky is not complaining, he loves his little bath tub.

Besides bathing time, cheeky has also been visiting the bathroom very frequently. I have started potty training him right after he turned 22 months old. I still find it difficult to make him sit on the potty to poo, he'd rather stand and poo! But at least he's willing to poo out of his diaper, so I shouldn't be complaining. He'd run to the bathroom by himself when he needs to pee, no need for mummy to remind him all the time. However, I have to let him walk around half-naked at home. Somehow, if he wears pants, he thinks he's on diaper and wouldn't bother going to the bathroom to relieve himself. Step by step, I guess.

There were a couple of times when he was diaperless when we were out. For just a few hours. However, I'd bring him to the toilet outside to pee and he'd obey. So far so good. Hope he will improve and soon be fully potty trained.

Embarassed

We were at the ION Orchard for dinner yesterday. Wanted to eat at Canton-I but it will only be opened on Thursday so we adjourned to Taste Paradise, the next most convenient restaurant. We were on level 4 and were not willing to brave the crowd to go down to levels B3 and B4 where most of the other restaurants are.

Taste Paradise is a high end restaurant. The food was nice but it was pricey too.

OK, back to my topic. We were happily eating when the little boy decided to release some of his pent up energy. So he screamed. Yes, he screamed. I am not kidding you. It was a happy, ear-piercing scream. The hubs and I felt like looking for a hole to hide. But the hubs had to give the waiters/waitresses and other customers apologetic looks and I quickly stuffed food into his little mouth and told him not to scream anymore. But obviously, he didn't listen. And screamed again!

So how many times do you think he screamed?

I am not very sure. Maybe 4-5 in total. And each time it happened, we both felt like hiding our heads! The hubs even abandoned his dinner and sat right next to Joshie, entertaining him and talking to him.

So how do you train your 10 month old child not to scream in public? Tips please.

"Take me out of the playpen"

Next on my "to do" list is to train my son to play in the play pen independently. Just look at him! He is crying coz he wants to get out. He does not like to be confined at all, even though this play pen is much more spacious and comfortable as compared to the travel cot type. He is fine and will play happily if one of us go in together with him. But once we step out, he will start crying. Look at him here, he's trying to "climb up" the playpen and get out of his jail.