I think it's time...

... to REALLY, seriously start potty training Jayden.

And not because I hate changing and spending money on diapers, which I do, but because he is giving us signs he's ready. He's been interested in the potty for a while and he will go pee in it on occasion (he's even gone at daycare and public restrooms). And over the last few months, he's been doing this annoying thing of taking off his diaper when he poops and then getting it everywhere. He HATES being dirty... on most occasions he will tell us when he's gone so that we can change him.

We have even had a few occasions where he's woken up dry. Once it was like 2-3 days in a row!Well, this morning I got up and saw Jayden asleep on the couch next to Aaron (yes, Aaron still sleeps on the couch by his choice since we are trying to transition Jaxson out of our bed and into his own...) and I went to wake him up to change him and get him dressed for daycare. I noticed that his diaper was dry. I didn't think anything of it and just assumed that Aaron had changed him in the middle of the night when he came out to sleep on the couch. So, I got him dressed, got him in the car, and drove the 10 minutes to daycare. I got him out of the car and we walked into daycare where his DCP said, "Oh my, he's completely soaked through his pants!". How did I not notice?? Sure enough...soaked. I was astonished and I said, "But I just checked him! He was dry!".

Vicki, his DCP (which stands for day care provider), said that holding your urine and waking up dry in the morning is the prime sign of potty training readiness. Then it hit me, "Wow, he held it all night long! He made it through a whole night without going potty!". It shouldn't surprise me as he's done it before, but something made me think that this was different. So, we are going to start getting really diligent about having him go potty in the morning when he wakes up and really anytime that we are with him...even in public. At home, to start out, we are going to try the "naked method" also known as the "375" method... 3 days of strict potty training while running around naked...and $75 to steam clean the carpets afterwards! Ha! Our carpet is shot anyway.

So, here's to a new adventure. We had planned on having Jayden potty trained by his 3rd birthday in December (or at least that was MY goal, anyway), so it looks like we are on track for now. Wish us luck... we are really going to do it this time and I hope that Jayden truly is ready!