Peace Out Pampers, Diapers Are For Babies!!

We have finally made it… little boy is now a potty trained big boy!!  He has been accident free (#1 and #2) going on six weeks now.  We started the potty training journey at the end of February and by mid April he had things fingered out.  I was shocked.  It all happened so much quicker than it did with Savannah.  Eric and I both were pleasantly surprised.  This weekend we went ahead and held up our end of the deal and had a pizza and cake party.  The whole time we were party training he kept asking for a pizza party with a cars cake once he was a "big boy".  It may sound silly to some, but both pizza and cake are special occasion treats for Ryder.  Thanks to his pesky food allergies, it is not everyday that he gets to enjoy either of them.  So we happily agreed to provide a couple of his favorite eats once he was a potty trained big kind.  It ended up being a perfect little celebration.

This kid loves pizza… he ate an entire medium pizza (minus one piece which he ate for breakfast the next morning).  We have this awesome pizza joint up the road that is very allergy friendly.  They are a tad more expensive, but totally worth it.  Ryder's pizza: no cheese, no butter… sausage and sauce only.

As a special treat, we also busted out the bounce house that papaw and grandma bought for Savannah years ago.  We have gotten it our before for him when he was a baby, but I do not think that he remembered we even had this.  The look on his face when he woke up from his nap and saw the bounce house was absolutely priceless.

While the little two bounced, the rest of us played jenga.  How totally awesome is this large jenga set…!!  

Per Bella's request, Ryder hauled her all around the backyard.  Made me laugh that he stopped what he was doing and said okay.  When i saw this picture I immediately thought of this old Joe Diffie song.  I had to add some lyrics to the picture… they were made for this picture.

Boy Likes To Potty

I have been dreading this task since I found out we were having another kid.  Potty training is the worst.  Savannah was actually fairly easy to potty train and I still really dislike the whole process.  It reminds me too much of house breaking a dog... pee everywhere, constant loads of laundry, nonstop lysoling... oh the joys.  So when Ryder started to tell us he peed in his diaper and started to ask about toilets, I knew that the time was coming.  I had planned to wait to address it until Savannah was back in school and out of my hair... but somehow we wound up at the baby store purchasing a potty chair.  It has been in our living room for a full week now and Ryder has had 4 successful pee pees in the potty.  Several non successful tries, and a handful of times where he didn't even want to try.  Considering we weren't actively potty training him this past week, I am pretty impressed with how Ryder has done so far.  Hopefully this is a sign that once I do begin the all out big boy underwear wearing potty training process that it will be a little easier than I expected.  

Pictures of successful pee pees... not disgusting at all, right.

His reward when he goes potty: BEANS!  They sit on our counter as a reminder to him that he can have some if and only if he goes potty.  So far this has been a great reward for him.