Parker and Potty Training

So this summer, after the Torgersons left I was at Target with Parker and Maggie and I asked Parker if he wanted to wear big boy underwear. To my complete shock he replied, “YES!” So we bought him some underwear. I had just talked to my sister Pam in Arkansas the day before and she had potty trained her daughter, Ellie, who is 9 months younger than Parker and I got a small need to try it out on Parker.  Just keep in mind that Maggie and David were not the easiest to potty train. David was 4 & 1/2 about and Maggie was about 2 and 1/2.  David had one horrible week of terrible accidents until he went to my sister, Trish’s house for a sleepover and I told him if he had a poopy accident there he wouldn’t be able to go back for another sleepover…sadly he had an accident. Luckily though it scared him enough that he has never had an accident since then! Maggie was somewhat easy to potty train and she was the one wanting to be potty trained, so I did it. After that it was accidents, so many accidents for YEARS!! I was defeated after the 2 of them and I wasn’t planning on trying with Parker until next year, but then I had the urge to give it a try and wow did it pay off!! He has been amazing!! He has not worn a diaper since July 26th.  It took him about 5 days to get brave enough to go poopy on the potty, so that was fun! We went through a ton of underwear that first week, but I then told him the toilet wanted his poopy and did it in a silly voice for him. Parker got a kick out of it and since then has been great at both on the potty.  I thought it was a myth that you could potty train your child without so much torture, but luckily it is not and I am so happy to only have one child in diapers.

Just to give y’all an idea of how much we had to change Parker…I get my diapers on Amazon and they would come every month on the same day. I would get 196 diapers a month for both Parker and Lizzy and most months I would end up having to buy extras before my next shipment came.  Wipes were also going very quickly as well! I was going through about 1000 a month! It was THAT insane with this child. On a good day he would only have 3 poopy diapers.  Talk about a money saver, now that we aren’t buying diapers and wipes for him! In the past month that he has been potty trained I think we have used about a half a thing of wipes for Lizzy and haven’t even came close to going through the almost 200 diapers.  It is heaven!!

I am so glad to have Parker potty trained and he really is doing an amazing job.  Not a fan of having to know where the bathroom is at any place that we go, because I am 90% sure that Parker will need to go potty at each place we go to, BUT it is so much better than all those dang dirty diapers!! Way to go Parker on being such a big boy!!