This summer Kyler decided to potty train by himself. In other words, he was running to the bathroom, taking all his clothes and diaper off and going potty. It seemed great! So we went to pull-ups, had a few perfect days, then to training pants. Again, a few perfect days, but a lot of not perfect days, and very frustrated parents. Yesterday, after Kyler had his umpteenth accident, Kipp said, "That's it. You're a baby and you're going back to diapers". When I (Jenny) got home and found out about this, I thought it wasn't the right thing to do! None of the books suggested anything like this! Only gentle encouragement and positive reinforcement. But that night at dinner he said he had to go potty. So we said to go do it yourself. A few minutes he comes running out naked yelling that he went poop! Come see! Sure enough, he did. We put training pants on him and he was dry the rest of the day. Kipp chose the perfect strategy.

Today he went potty for me easily in the morning, and instead of training pants, he went for the Bob the Builder Big Boy Regular Underpants that we have been trying to bribe him with for the last 6 weeks. OK. So I told him he had to keep them clean. He went potty a couple of times at home, and also went poop at home in the potty! Then we went to Fred Meyer for groceries. I put him in Playland. After about 45 min I get a call for Jennifer Howard! I came running! I didn't know if he had already had an accident or needed to go. He was dry! We went to potty and he did it and stayed dry! The lady who works there told me, "Kyler came up to me and said, 'Pat, I am a big boy with big boy pants on. I go pee-pee and poop in the potty now.'" And he did. We are excited!!!