poop training

We had one objective for the day and that was getting The Mayor to poop in the potty. The stinker (no pun intended) just holds his poop until he is in a nighttime diaper. And I can't take it anymore! He is over 3 1/2 years old and needs to be completely potty-trained before he starts school in August. Plus it is just plain annoying that he won't poop in the potty.

I have been adding Miralax to his water the past couple of days to help soften his stool and keep him from holding it all day. I had told myself we were going to hunker down for the next few days at home, keep him naked from the waist down so he won't poop in his underwear and just pray that this works.

At 3:00 this afternoon, after hours of tears, screams of "It's scary" and pleas from The Mayor to be put into a diaper so he could poop, he finally did it in the potty. And not to get too graphic, but it was the smallest amount of poop I have ever seen. But it was poop in the potty nonetheless and you would have thought we had just won the lottery with the celebration we had. We made the biggest deal about the tiny poop in the potty. He got 2 M&Ms, lots of hugs and kisses and we made some phone calls to a happy D and Meega where The Mayor proudly said "I pooped in the potty!".

At 6:00 tonight, we had another successful potty experience. This time there were just as many tears and screams of "I'm scared" but we just kept telling him it would be ok. We are finally making some progress. We will continue tomorrow and hope for more success.