Princess is on a Mission!

Princess is on a mission!

She are I are pretty outnumbered here in FamilyOf5Land. We have Dadof3, the Prince, and the Knight who are all boys. The cats are boys too, but since they are not using the toilet, they are not getting blamed for this one!

One of the biggest pitfalls of being girls living within a majority of boys is the Toilet Trap, otherwise know as sitting on the pot when the seat has been left up.

Ick!

DadOf3 is usually innocent. My whining and crabbing at him after such incidents has trained him to put the seat down.

The Prince and the Knight are another story.

Now that the Knight is officially potty trained (for the last 6 months - yippee!) it is time for another round of potty training: Put The Seat Down or Experience the Wrath of your Sister!

She came out of the potty the other day after having experienced the icky bottom bath of doom hopping mad. Luckily I caught her first. We talked about it and worked out a strategy.

We decided together that because I normally provide positive reinforcement as opposed to punishment, that we would continue being positive (although she really wanted to wallup somebody!). So we gathered the little boys together and made them a deal. Each and every time that they go potty and then come back to report that they put the seat down, they get a sticker! Stickers are BIG at our house and should do the trick. I am not, however, above raising the stakes.

Because...ick!

I am just doing my part to make the world a better place!

Potty Training Lightbulb!

This weekend the Knight had a Potty Training Lightbulb! He decided that it was good to go potty AND poopy in the toilet! He has been in underpants ALL week and we have had nary an accident. Yippee my little Knight!! Awesome job!!

We figured that every pull-up he doesn't use saves us about 50 cents! Woo hoo! If I can eliminate pull-ups altogether, that will save at least $14.99 every week from the grocery bill. I have been trying to keep the grocery bill as close to $100 per week as possible (not as easy as it sounds with a famiy of 5), so this is like getting a raise!

The Prince Earns His Prize!

The Prince woke up from nap this afternoon and earned his 5th check mark for keeping his pull-up dry! We have been working on this for a while so this is a BIG deal! The Prince earned a Lightning McQueen shake and go car. He was SO proud of himself and we are SO proud of him! The Princess came home from school with a Good Behavior Prize too! It is a day for Prizes in our house! The Princess chose a hand held fan that needs no batteries. Very neat! She pumps it with her hand to make it go. Way to go Prince and Princess! You are growing up! I snapped a picture of the Knight too. He just woke up and is not very with it but he is a cutie pie just the same!

View from the Prince's Seat

The Prince actually slept in this morning! In fact, DadOf3 had already delivered the Princess to her bus and had come back in for breakfast before the Prince came downstairs! I am suspecting a growth spurt because the Prince does not normally sleep in. He woke up really happy too and ate his breakfast without incident. He balked a little bit when I told him to change out of his wet pull-up before breakfast, but, all in all, it has been a great morning! He is still working on staying dry during the night. I am not all that worried though. The Prince is a great sleeper. I would much rather have a good sleeper in a pull-up than a light sleeper who is dry all night and up all night too. All in good time... We actually have been keeping track of when the Prince is dry at night and at nap time. He does not wear a pull-up to nap and is dry 99% of the time. He gets a check mark for every time he wakes up dry - either from nap or from over night. If he is wet, the check marks get erased. If he gets 5 check marks in a row, he earns a shake and go car that we bought at the grocery store. They are all shaped like the Cars characters. He can earn a Doc, a Mater, a Romone, and a Lightning McQueen. The highest number of checkmarks he has gotten in a row is 3. We don't make a big deal about it if he is wet. We just erase the marks and start over. Since the Prince was having such a good morning, I let him take a picture. I will add it to this post. This is the view from the Prince's seat. :)