Potty Update

Well shoot. I guess it's been a busy few weeks. Sorry for the dry spell, folks.

We have some exciting potty news from December - Lucas finally decided he was ready to use the potty, and we gave away the changing table! This is how their giant closet looks without the table now:

We kept the diaper pail since they're still wearing diapers at night.

I felt pretty nostalgic about giving up the table - it was a core part of their nursery, and our lives, for so long. So I took a few final pictures of them on the table and compared them to the newborn days:


Zoey

Abby

Luke-man

 We really needed to remove the table, since they mainly used it for climbing.

As for potty successes, here are our stats:
Zoey = 100% now - wears underwear 24/7 and accidents are very rare
Abby = 80% - still wears a diaper at night, still poops in her undies sometimes
Lucas = 75% - still wears a diaper at night, still poops in undies sometimes, still has some pee accidents

Once Lucas expressed a renewed interest, we discovered his currency - teddy grahams and mini 'nilla wafers. I guess we hadn't really given them to the kids much, so they were a pretty novel treat. Lucas was much more motivated by food treats vs. the stickers that the girls got when they learned to use the potty. A funny side effect of this is now the girls expect cookies when they go potty, even though they were already doing a great job before Lucas started getting the treats. There are plenty of times when they don't want to stop what they're doing to use the potty, but we've found that setting a timer, and reminding them about the cookies, usually helps. We feel reasonably confident about taking them out in public wearing underwear (pull-ups are too expensive, and kind of confusing for them). We're doing a lot more laundry (feels like the newborn days!) due to the accidents but we're hoping that gets better over time. They look absolutely adorable in their tiny little undies!