WOO HOO for the potty fairy!

Okay, so some of you know that I've been struggling to get James my 4.5 year old potty trained. My Pedi was quite peeved at me when I took him in for his 4 year old check up in November and he was still in pull ups. :( He told me that I had 6 months to get him out of the pull ups and trained or he'd have to run a series of tests on him to make sure there was nothing developmentally wrong with him.

This pissed me off something fierce... Don't even get me started on how my husband felt. Needless to say, we changed Pedi's soon after that and I started working on getting him potty trained.

I went and bought the Peter Potty system from Walmart, you know that stand up urinal for potty training boys. James immediately took to it and within a matter of 2 months (he's hard headed, did I mention that) we finally had him going pee on the potty.

1 down, 1 to go!

Well, I've been trying since February to get him to poo on the potty and to no availe. I've even taken away playing th Wii, taken away playing on the computer and took away his Geotracks. I figured hit him where it hurts and he'd come around...

Nope! He doesn't care, he'd found other things to play with. Ugh! Stubborn little guy. Well, I finally figured out that when he had to do his business, he'd run up stairs into his room and shut the door so we've been trying to catch him to stop him in his tracks.

Well, what ended up happening is that he'd hold it in so much and for so long that he'd end up just going little bits in his underwear. We'd go through about 5 pairs of underwear a day. :(

I didn't think the day would come. I even told him that he can't start Kindergarten next school year because he wouldn't poo in the potty; it didn't even phase him. I thought great, I've got a new born baby coming very soon and I'm going to be changing poopy 4.5 year old pants and new born...AAAAAHHHHHH!

So guess what happened... Andrew is now home for summer vacation after finishing Kindergarten so I asked him a while back if he caught James taking off to do his business in his pants to lure him into the bathroom. Well, he got home yesterday from watching Night at the Museum 2 with his cousin and had to do his business.

James was interested and so he followed Andrew into the bathroom. Andrew is on the big potty and so he convinced James to sit on his potty (the training one). Andrew did his business AND SO DID JAMES! WOO HOO!

Andrew even went so far as to empty out the bowl from James' potty into the big potty, wiped his bottom and flushed it all down the commode. He informed me after the fact that James pooed.

I was so excited that I baked him (James) home made from scratch chocolate chip cookies! I told Andrew that if he got James to go again in the potty to call me before he flushed anything.

Low and behold this morning Andrew had to go potty and so did James. Same routine as yesterday, this time I got called in and OH MY GOODNESS!!!! James pooped out two huge pieces of poo! I have never been so excited in my life to talk about bodily functions, but I have to say I am SO EXCITED!

So, as a reward for the both of them we went to the store this afternoon and I bought them the game Mouse trap. Andrew played it at school during his last week and was really wanting it. Anything Andrew does/wants James does/wants too; so I got a 2 for 1 deal there. ;)

Now we just have to make sure we get James to hit the potty instead of his room and I should hopefully have him fully potty trained before Joshua gets here!

Yippee!