Potty Training Boot Camp

We have tried potty training Joseph several times - and at one point early on, he thought it was fun to sit on the potty and actually went a couple of times. And then it was over. He wanted nothing to do with it. We tried rewards, stickers, M & Ms, Cheerios. . . everything we could think of. Nothing worked. Finally we sort of gave up and figured he would do it when he was ready.

Then our dear friend Gibson used a method with her daughter that worked and we decided to try it too. Three Day Potty Training! We started talking it up to Joseph. He'd always say, "ok, we'll do that later." And we would say, "yes. And later is going to be on Tuesday." We sent Joseph to school on Monday and started Potty Training Boot Camp on Tuesday morning. First we had Joseph throw away all of his diapers. (And by throw away - we mean that we had him put them all in a nice clean trash bag and daddy hid it in the garage.)
He wasn't too thrilled about doing this. But then he got into it and said good-bye to all of his diapers. We started out Day 1 with an accident which he apologized profusely for. The second time he had to go we had a partial accident but made it to the potty for most of it. We had no more accidents that day! The bed was also dry after his nap!!!
On Day 2 Joseph woke up dry! He had one partial accident during the day but every other trip was a success. And he was dry during naptime.
Day 3 - no accidents!!! He woke up dry again and stayed dry during naptime. He is able to go to the bathroom almost entirely on his own.
You'll notice by the charts that we're still having a little issue with going #2 in the potty but that will come. We are so proud of our little boy and so excited that this method worked. Tonight we're having a celebratory Potty Party!