I believe the Poo Poo Party was a success. The party was 8 days ago and we've only had 4 accidents since. We've had to make some adjustments however... Silas really liked the party idea so every time he used the bathroom for 3 days after we had to light candles for him to blow out. After the first day, the cake we made was trashed with candle holes so I transitioned him to a scented candle. After, 3 good days he finally earned his remote control jeep which he LOVED and after one day of use tried to "ride" and broke. He started to have some regression on the poo aspect of the training so we turned the Poo Poo Party into Poo Poo Presents. Isaac and I gathered up 6 gifts (new crayons, coloring books, etc.) and wrapped them and told Silas that every time he pooped he could get a present... By 6pm of day one he was out of presents. Silas quickly learned how to force himself to poop in order to earn presents. It was a little hard to reward when he only produced a pea size product but I guess the concept was there. For the next few days we were going through 6-7 poo poo presents a day. He realized that poo in the potty was like GOLD!! We were getting worried that he was causing hemorrhoids... but yesterday he only produced 3 presents which was a nice adjustment. This little stinker is smarter than we know.
Today is officially the last day of summer vacation!!! Oh sorry, did I sound too excited there? Caleb asked me the other day if my life was really so bad that I would be this excited for the boys to go back to school.... Um no, my life is not that bad. However, I'm 9 months pregnant and ever since June the temp. has been in the upper 90's so we've spent a lot of time indoors going a little crazy. We could all use a little time apart each day. Caleb should know that when he's home for an extended period of time with nothing to do that he drives us all a little crazy!!
That's about all of our excitement here...countdown to baby is 4 weeks from tomorrow (hopefully)!
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