Remember way back when I potty trained Marie? It was about 17 months ago. I've tried various times to potty train Peter, but he would only pee when I told him to go. Even if it had only been 15 minutes since I told him to go potty, he would have no problem going on the floor. We never managed to have him successfully poop in the potty. I would get frustrated and put him back in diapers. He just didn't seem interested in actually going in the potty--just in wearing underwear.
I planned on revisiting the issue this August when I would actually be home for a while. I had a lot of vacations planned during the summer and didn't want to try to deal with potty training while we were out and about. I did want to get it done in time for him to go to preschool.
However, my sister decided that she would take time out of her life to spend the day with Peter. She helped him come up with rewards that he wanted and helped bring him to the potty all day long. He had an accident that day, so it wasn't perfect. Overall, though, he had a great day. I left the next day for my cruise, so my parents took over for the next few days. I had him for the week we were in CA, but then my parents took over again while we went to Disneyland to reinforce going in the potty. My sister held a "Potty Party" for him at McDonalds and I made him a "brown cake in the black pan" that he requested (That's how Peter asks for a chocolate cake in a bundt pan).
While I won't say we've been accident free, he's finally seemed to catch on. In fact, he'll now even clean himself and his clothes up when he has an accident. He's mostly accident free and is seeming to do well enough at night to be night trained as well.
A big thanks to my sister and to my parents who helped do a lot of the work!
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