Potty Training - Stage 3 - Complete

Well, Troy has worn underwear to bed every night for the last ten days without an incident. I’m declaring him officially potty trained! I’m so proud of him. This stage went much easier than I expected, especially after how hard it was to get him daytime potty trained to begin with. But much like the pacifier, Troy just up and decided that he was done and ready to move on. We take him to the bathroom right before bed, and that’s it. He still drinks water while we’re reading him his book, but nothing. In fact, he doesn’t even want to go when I wake him up. He’ll lay around on the couch for an hour before he finally decides to take himself in there.

There was only one morning where the bladder had gotten the better of him. He came all the way downstairs and was doing a dance by the side of the bed, saying, “Mama, mama! I need to go to the potty!” She told him to go and stop dancing by the bed. He made it fine and stood in there for a good two minutes, peeing nonstop, finally letting out a long sigh. But even that was only fifteen minutes before I’d normally wake him up, so still impressive.