So it feels like we *may* finally be making some progress. we did not have any accidents yesterday at all and Olly even took himself off for a wee on a couple of occasions 🙂

We even ventured out of the house as we needed to take Elliot to the walk in doctor surgery – yes once again our own surgery could not see him as they were as usual emergencies only – rally is ridiculous that we can hardly ever get an appointment at our own doctor 🙁 Anyway, it transpires that the poor monkey picked up impetigo at the play centre in Sheffield on Saturday last week :-(. So he has some strong cream to hopefully burn the four spots from his face…. 🙁

It is Manda and Katrina’s wedding day so Vicky was tres busy yesterday getting the cupcakes finished and ready for delivery today. They definitely caused her a few challenges and I think she ended up baking nearly 200 cakes to get the just over 100 that she needed. We are taking several sets of clothes for Olly and we will be all over taking Olly to the toilet as many times as we possibly can to get him through the day. Fingers crossed this will be a good day for him and also a great day for the happy couple of course 🙂

Another day with Oliver not wanting us to advise him when he needs to make use of the facilities.  We have observed a couple of small accidents where he has simply got wrapped up in whatever it is that he is currently doing, and hence ‘forgets’ to use the facilities.  At least he is now realising that he is getting wet etc, and subsequently makes his way to the potty.  He is sadly still frightened of the toilets in the house – remember daddy trapped his leg between the seat and porcelain at the weekend 🙁

He managed a #2 in the potty again today – unprompted – he was SO pleased with himself 😀

We clearly just have to fight through the week and break the pattern for him.  Just not looking forward to Saturday – potty training while at a Wedding – oh the joys of it….

We will succeed 🙂

Well, day three was not so good – all was going fine in the morning although this was (thinking back) down to hourly requests to visit the potty. Then once daddy decided to let Olly self select potty visits, it went ever so slightly wrong 🙁 We had both numbers one and two delivered and two was not a small item – involved strip off, clothes straight into the outside bin and Olly to the bath :-(. This felt like a massive set back that recovery from was going to be tough – the rest of the day went well with hourly reminders in play.

Hopefully day 4 will be a better day with more progress – we are yet to experience Olly realise he needs to go and head off by himself. Thus we still believe that while he can wee on demand, he does not know when he NEEDS to go…

Today will show us more….

Yesterday went slightly less well than Monday where we had two wet pants situations in relatively quick succession :-(. We thought that we could relax on the hourly alarm to remind us to pop him on the potty – to allow him to decide when he needed to go. Erm, that will be a no then…. 🙁

We quickly returned to hourly potty visit requests. this stopped the wet pants situations pretty quickly but does not feel like we are making progress. Oh well, we must continue along this course.

We have also initiated a reward system for each successful visit – we will see if this works today as we are now into day 3.

In unrelated news, we are trying to get ready to go swimming – we await to get swimming at least twice a week to get both boys in good shape before school starts again in September – we bought the bands that the school use so that they are settling in with the same equipment :-). come on mummy, hurry up….

We have got to the point where we HAVE to get Olly potty trained so today is day 1.  We have had two accidents today and around 8 successful potty visits 🙂  We have also managed to get a large number 2 delivered to the potty also 🙂

Simon did try to begin the training yesterday, although got off to a bad start by trapping his leg between the toilet seat and the porcelain 🙁

All in all, we have done pretty well today although we don’t think that he has a clue when he is needing a wee, just gets frustrated with us for asking him to once again sit on the potty 🙁

Anyway, our plan is to spend this week getting a little wet, a lot frustrated, but with the plan to break the back of it…  Not a massive issue that it is raining heavily then 🙂 What a start for July….

Simon has also arranged for Chips Away to come out next Wednesday to repair the paintwork damage that he applied to the front of Bruce in the school car park last week 🙁  Sadly he thought he was OK when doing tight maneuvers around the back of school, and caught the bumper on the school wall.  A couple of hundred pounds will see it sorted by Wednesday afternoon 🙂