Five years, seven months.
It's been a very long time doing this one thing every day. Sometimes upwards of eight times a day.
It's a filthy habit. One that I've been slowly phasing out.
Truth be told, I'm not the only one with the habit. The Wife is just a guilty in this as I am.
But through the power of positive thinking and reinforcement, we've been working hard toward breaking this cycle.
Interrupted sleep has been aplenty. Screaming and crying at all hours.
Over the long MLK weekend, we quit cold turkey.
I'm proud to report that in the last 10 days, The Boy has not worn a diaper during the day or overnight, and with the exception of a small accident in his bed Saturday night—which I fully admit to being my fault (I'll explain later)—has been dry all day and night.
Truth be told, he's latched onto this "no accidents, dry all day and night" thing way better than his sister ever did.
I won't go into the details of bedtime routine, because it's boring reading. However, the reason I take blame for the Saturday night accident is because I tried to push the time between taking him to the bathroom. See, we take him right before going to bed at 8, and then I'll wake him and take him to the bathroom again at 11. He makes it until 6 without problems. Saturday night, I was being a bit lazy and tired and not wanting to get off the couch, and tried to get to 11:30. I got up from the couch intending to put a LaCroix can into recycling and then taking him. If I'd only taken him first because he met me at the hall door where he said, "I'm a little wet." We live, we learn.
But the moral of the story is that after over five-and-a-half years of changing diapers for two kids, we are officially done with the damn things.
Good riddance.
Word to the Nerd
17 comments:
Congrats! Our little one is finally getting the hang of it as well!
Woohoo! Congrats!!! It's a moment to celebrate for days. Weeks. Months!
Very well written, btw. :) :)
Mazel tov! No more diaper changing! That's great. Now you don't have to deal with diapers until you get old and incontinent.
Congrats! I'm sooooo jealous. My daughter is out of diapers but the 20 month-old son still has a while before we can start on the potty training. I look forward to the days where we're done with diapers and sippy cups (so sick of cleaning those damn things since there's no easy way to make sure the nozzles are clean).
Now THAT is a champagne-worthy milestone!
woohoo, a break until you start wearing them yourself in about 50 years :P
Congratulations!
And five and a half years longer than I could've handled it.
such a milestone! Congratulations to all of you!
The Daughter came into my world at 13.5
No diapers.
Ever.
Woohoo! This is an achievement. My brother was trying to potty train his kid and ended up giving up to try again in a few months... Good job!
Allison (Geek Banter)
No diapers. Congratulations!
Congrats! I can't imagine me being any good at that stuff, so more power to you :)
Jamie
Hot damn! Congratulations.
After 5 years and 7 months I'm pretty sure you and the wife should be up for some sort of commendation. At least, that's my recommendation to the president. Congratulations.
Well done, Dad. If I follow that rate I'm only 4.5 years away! Yippee.
Woohoo!! That's gotta be a huge milestone in any parent's life!
Yay! Congratulations! My guy only wears a pull-up when he sleeps now. I don't know how much longer he'll have to do that for. I guess for at least another year until he knows to get up and go to the bathroom on his own at night.
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