Wesley's Great Adventures

We had been at our wit's end for the past 6 months trying to figure out how to get Wesley potty trained at home. He would go all day at daycare and never have an accident. We would pick him up in the same pull-up as the one we dropped him off in. It would never fail that almost immediately on our trip back home he would go the bathroom in his pull-up. He would go in his pull-ups at home and it was a chore to even get him to try and sit on the potty. So, I came up with "Wesley's Potty Chart" a couple weeks ago. I don't know what took me so long to figure this out, but it has been wonderful. For every time Wesley goes to the potty on the big boy potty he gets 1 sticker to put on the chart. If he fills up the entire column with stickers he gets to choose a special treat. This has been wonderful, because not only does he look forward to getting a sticker every time he goes potty, but he really looks forward to the special treat that he gets when he fills the column up. The funny part is that he knows how many stickers he needs to finish filling up his column. He'll realize that he is only 1 or 2 away, so he'll run to the bathroom and go just a little bit and then go back in 10 minutes and go a little bit more. So far, he has chosen to get green and chocolate ice cream as a treat, m&m's, little chocolate cakes, and Diego big boy underwear. (Can you tell he is my son with all the chocolate treats he is requesting?) He has been doing this for about 2 weeks and has only had a couple of accidents. He even made it today wearing a regular pair of underwear. He and Erick went to the library and Erick said that Wesley took his hand and said "Come with me Daddy." Wesley led him to the bathroom, but they had to wait about 10 minutes to be able to use it. Wesley made it and didn't have any accidents. I'm so proud of him. Finally. . . maybe he will be fully potty trained soon. Keep your fingers crossed.