Potty Seats & Pull-ups

This past week, the boys have said two big goodbyes. The first goodbye was to the two Baby Bjorn potty seats that Ethan has been using for the past six months. He is big enough to use the "big" potty all the time now, and I am tired of emptying/cleaning the small ones. So they have enjoyed one final thorough cleaning and have been retired to the closet with all of the other baby/toddler things we don't use anymore.

The second big goodbye was to Caleb's nighttime Pull-ups. This happened more by accident. We ran out of 4T/5T Pull-ups and I didn't realize it until a couple hours before bedtime. He had been complaining about wearing Pull-ups at night for a while, but since he is still wet 2-3 times a week, we had been making him wear them. So, since we ran out of them, I decided to give nighttime dryness another try. (We tried this almost a year ago, and he was wet half the time, so we went back to Pull-ups.) I stripped the bed of all bedding except the cotton mattress cover and Caleb's little "blankie," so there would be less bedding to wash. It has been a week without Pull-ups, and he has been dry four times. The trick seems to be to wake him up about an hour-and-a-half or so after he falls asleep. He seems to be emptying his bladder at the end of his first sleep cycle (about 90 minutes into his sleep). If we catch him before that happens, he stays dry all the rest of the night.