Potty Training Twins — Lauren Warren

If you are reading this blog for tips … I’ve got nothing! There is a mommy guru blog out there waiting for you … I’m just hanging out in real life.

Climbing ninjas, just helping themselves to a few snacks.

I believed the mommy guru’s blog with my oldest. She allowed me to live in Mommy Fantasy Land, which prompted us to have another kid. She potty trained in 4 days at 26 months. Looking back it was fairly easy. We potty trained her a few months after bringing the twins home. She wasn’t ready or interested, she didn’t wake up dry. She showed no signs; yet she was ready because the clock was up … her parents refused to buy diapers for 3. Four days later magic happened with the help of her dad, the babysitters, and myself.

She set the bar. She set the bar so high that my climbing ninjas couldn’t even come close to reaching that bar.

Drinking up girls … the potty is waiting.

First Attempt - Christmas break
Day 1 - Lucy did great (she’d been going pretty regularly at school). Livi not so much.
Day 2 - Travis and Elle jumped ship and went to church. Lucy got a little territorial and started marking her areas around the house. She’d look me dead in the eyes and pee. Clearly she should have gone with them because homegirl needed a little Jesus that day. Life loving Livi followed suit … peeing around the house looked like a party and Livi couldn’t miss out. As I am cleaning pee up everywhere, one … who knows which one, they look alike … broke a huge glass picture frame and I had to pick glass out of her foot … a nice break from cleaning pee up. All the while, I am sending extremely friendly texts messages thanking my husband for going to church because things were going phenomenal at home.
Day 3 - They ganged up on me and took all of their clothes out of their dresser and all of their sheets off their beds during nap time. I retaliated by throwing their snack to them in their room, and locked them in toddler jail (at least it was apples.) And that my friends was the end of potty training.

They retaliated for being locked in toddler jail by making this occurrence a habit.

Second Attempt - Spring Break
Day 1 - I introduced the Tee-Tee Treat (M&M’s) and the Tee-Tee Sticker Chart. Cleaned up my first round of pee to find, Livi locked in the pantry eating all the Tee-Tee Treats and Lucy sticking stickers all over the Tee-Tee Sticker Chart. They were back in pull-ups by 10 am. Nobody’s got time for that. I also decided to veto that fourth kid because I didn’t have it in me to potty train another soul.

Third Attempt - First Week of Summer
Day 1 - I don’t really know what happened because I went to work all week, but what I do know is that they were semi potty-trained by my mother-in-law with the help of a Poppy from Troll’s candy dispenser.

Six weeks into summer you can find me at any and every public bathroom … my favorite part of being a girl mom. You can usually hear me yelling things like, “STOP! Don’t touch that, It’s disgusting!” “I’m sorry ma’am, there’s three in here I couldn’t catch her before she crawled into your stall.” “Yes, you can help me … here … hold this one.” (never offer to help because that crazy momma will take you up on it!) “Get off the floor, get of the floor, GET OFF THE FLOOR!!!” “This is incredibly disgusting!!” “Don’t touch that … DO NOT touch that again” “That is NOT a baby trash can” “Yes, that does have blood on it.” “We are NEVER going to the bathroom in public again!” Needless, to say we have had to set a bunch of ground rules for the public bathroom.

Rule 1: Hold it!
Rule 2: You’re just going to have to hold it.
Rule 3: If dad will take you, you can go!
Rule 4: You may ONLY use your feet and elbows to touch things.
Rule 5: You may not pull your pants down in public and pee standing up … I will take you to the dreaded bathroom!
Rule 6: Remember Rule 4.