Twin Potty Training

Potty training with twin boys is proving to be quite the experience.  I'm not even sure they're ready to be trained.  But since they wake up every morning and promptly take off their diapers and take simultaneous dumps on the carpet, I figure they must be at least partly ready.  So last week I hauled out a little potty from Katy's potty training days.  After gathering lots of advice from my pals on Facebook, I started sitting them on the little pot during diaper changes.

Immediately I made a huge mistake.  I offered M&Ms for sitting on the pot.

Ooops.

By the end of the very first day the boys had figured out that if they "asked" to sit on the potty, they would get chocolate.  You can imagine how that went.

By day two the chocolate was gone (sad face), but I was still putting the kids on the pot at every diaper change.  Without the novelty of the chocolate, though, there was nothing to make them stay sitting, and they wouldn't stay sitting on the little pot for more than a second.  I took what I could get, and then put the diaper on and figured that they would get it eventually. 

So far, I've been wrong.

And I've been missing one diaper change- the very first one of the day.  The way our day goes, In the mornings, I bring the boys in the living room and get them settled with toys and such before leaving them to get their breakfast, etc.  As SOON as I leave the room, they take off their pants, their diapers, and poop on the floor.  One day I returned to find Eli swaying at the entrance of baby jail and peeing through the baby jail gates, totally oblivious to the world around him.  Nice.

So today I decided to wait on breakfast (and coffee... this sacrifice is a testament to how much I love my children) and I pulled the potty into baby jail, pulled off diapers and waited for signs that they were ready to "go."

Nothing.  For over an hour.  Nothing.

Finally, my own need to pee over came the need to train, so I slapped diapers on and removed the potty and headed for the head myself.

I returned to two dirty diapers.

At least they didn't take them off this time.

I give up.

Next step: Maybe carpeting the inside of the potty since they like to poop on the floor so much?