BAGM went out for a little alone time at the hair salon after I was done with work tonight. I ordered Pizza Hut and me and the kids watched some Arthur on PBS. About this time, Giggles woke up politely demanding some dinner. While feeding her, Pookie started looking a little wiggly and distracted.
I told him to go try pooping. He walked to the bathroom but I couldn’t really follow him since I was busy with Giggles.
A couple minutes later he came back with his pants unbuttoned and started watching TV again. I noticed that his pants were wet which frequently happens when he poops in his pants.
I marched him upstairs (so he could clean himself up in the shower), dropped Giggles in the crib, told Pookie to take off his clothes and start cleaning up.
When he pulled down his pants his underwear were wet but not dirty if you know what I mean. I made him sit down and try to push the poop out. He complained and said that he didn’t want to and that he just wanted to go put on his underwear. He normally says this when sitting on the toilet whether he needs to poop or not so I didn’t let him get up for several minutes.
BAGM had returned during this time so I didn’t have to worry about Giggles in the other room but it seemed like Pookie really was not going to do anything in the toilet so I told him to put his clothes in the hamper.
That’s when I noticed that his heiney was a little dirty. Those of you that have kids that know how to poop but don’t know how to wipe will know what I’m talking about.
But his underwear were clean. What exactly happened here?
I figured that there might be a little more left to work on so I had him sit back on the toilet and try. No good.
In my confusion, I picked up his clothes and noticed that his underwear were a little wet but not nearly as wet as his pants and the crotch area was dry.
What is going on?
Then the light bulb went off.
“Did you poop downstairs?”
“Yes, poop. I want a Kit Kat.”
We walked downstairs and sure enough, a big poop in the toilet and a puddle of water on the floor. Apparently while pooping, the pee flew a little wildly and sprayed his pants and the floor.
The mystery of the phantom poop – solved.
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LOL. That happens to Little P all the time. “Mommy, I pooped. And, I peed on the floor/my pants.” We always have to ask whether he peed when he pooped, or if he just peed on the floor (he went through a phase where he did this intentionally for awhile).
Congratulations on the progress!
I didn’t even think about it because Pookie does such a good job of aiming down. BAGM and I were just talking about that the other night. We’re not even sure where he learned it since we ‘ve never spent much time showing him.
He seemed pretty excited when I finally figured out what happened so hopefully I didn’t scar him too badly and we got to talk about how he should tell me when he does poop.
For the record, this makes two days in a row that I was able to get him to poop in the toilet. Hopefully we’ll get lucky and catch him at the right time today and over the weekend so that we can really start getting this final stage of potty training under control.
So great! So nice to leave diapers/pullups/potty worries behind…well, in your case I reckon you have a few years to go in that department (with the new baby, I mean), LOL.
Potty training is a great Holiday present for the whole family!
Could I just cry? I’m not ready for this (though my daughter is getting really close).
Good post, by the way.
How old is she now?!? It seems like just the other day I was reading about her as a little baby.
You’ll do fine. I think girls are much easier. They pee and poop the same way so I think they make the connection a little easier when it comes time to work on the poop training.
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