The Battle of Potty Training

All us parents have been there....the dreaded age of potty training! The training pants, the rushed trips to the potty, and the occasional accident. How do you handle it all? How do you make it come together? And every kid is different in so many ways!

With Lana, it was late but it was easy. She was 5 before she got fully potty trained (I know, I know shame on Mommy lol). But once she got started it was a breeze. Tom was deployed, it was in between paydays and I had run out of pullups. I refused to put a diaper on her cuz at the time Connor was still in diapers. So I told her that she had to start using the potty until payday because we were out of pullups (luckily I had a few pairs of undies hidden). She started using the potty and when payday rolled around she said she didn't want pullups, she wanted big girl underwear. And that was that, she doesn't even have accidents at night.

Connor is turning into a much different story. I really want him to start Kindergarten in the fall, and in order to do that he has to be potty trained, at least during the day. All this past week, with the pullups he's been doing great! He went in the bathroom all by himself, did his business and that was that. So Tom bought him superhero underwear last night and we tried him without the pullups today. It's only just after 11am and he has gone through 3 pair of undies! I finally put a pullup on him and told him when he proved to me that he could stay dry and go to the potty he could have his superhero underwear back.

Why is he all of a sudden peeing in his underwear? He was doing SO good with it I thought for sure this would be a breeze. I'm hoping to have him potty trained before Tom leaves for Georgia in July, but right now I'm so frustrated I wanna just give up! I'll welcome ANY tips or advice anyone may have, because right now, I'm at a loss! Tom leaves tomorrow morning for field training he'll be gone for a week and a half. That should be fun because Connor wants Daddy to take him in the potty most of the time. I hope ya'll enjoyed your weekend! Enjoy the sunshine!