Thursday, February 11, 2010

Poo Bribery

We are trying so hard to get Gavin potty trained. He is not ready. But we are trying. We are just so sick of changing his diapers for many reasons; 1. he will not let us change it until it is so incredibly full he is leaking out of it. 2. since he leaks out of it he gets pee on whatever thing he is sitting on (thank goodness we finally broke down and bought leather couches) 3. He pees out of his diaper at night (I cannot tell you how many times I have had to change the sheets in the past couple weeks) 4. His Crap (excuse my language) smells like as Trysten would say: "hair caught on fire with a rotten egg on top." I'm thinkin' it smells so bad because he drinks gallons of chocolate milk every week and the only food he will eat at meals are his vegetables. Strange child huh? :) Anyway, we decided to bribe him. So we told him that if he goes poop in the toilet we would get him a spiderman. Well, that worked really well! The next day he went poop right in the toilet and was so proud of himself! I jumped up and down and took pictures and we all rejoiced and gave him spiderman.
Has he gone since? NO. He doesn't understand that he has to KEEP ON going in the toilet. I guess if someone gave me a million dollars (that's what a "spiderman" would be for me) for cleaning the house I wouldn't clean the house ever again either. (I would get a maid) And it's not like we can buy him a toy every time he goes poop! Oh well, we tried. I guess bribing doesn't work every time does it. I will just have to deal with the stinky poo diaper changing until he is really ready.



2 comments:

Alan and Kiersten said...

oh man the little stinker! i love that picture though! yeah we're starting potty training maybe next week, i'm really nervous but we're at least going to TRY before this baby comes!

chtralvn said...

You are such a great Mom, Melissa. You have such a funny way of looking at the ups and downs of raising kids. Don't despair... he will be potty trained before his first date... and that may come sooner than you think... he is such a cutey!
I love you and hope to see you all soon!
Auntie