I'm going for it - please hold my hand

[olivesnutsandcheese]

DS is 2.8. I'm not sure if he's ready but as DH is away for 10 days with work and DSS is leaving today for a week at his mums, I thought I'd give potty training a go.
The weather forecast is pretty good as well so hoping just wearing pants on his bottom half means he won't freeze while in the garden.
I inherited DSS when he was 5 - so other than a few please wipe my bottom episodes, I'm completely clueless at this.
I'm going to chart our progress or lack of on here and then see if its worth persevering. Any tips very welcome!
He is still in his night time nappy so I'm getting up then we're going for it......wish us luck

Sounds promising olives. we are hopefully making progress too, I am going to update my thread

We had a good day today, went to see DM and DS enjoyed time with Granny, showing off his potty skills. We used pull ups for the car journeys and these stayed dry but he didn't get to the potty in time for his wees.
Like I've mentioned before, he seems to have totally 'got' poos, which I am grateful for, 6 days without having to change a pooey nappy feels like a miracle!
He definitely needs more practice though so in order to carry on with our lives I've decided to adopt pants/bare bottom whilst at home and a pull up if we're going out.
In terms of success I'd say we're halfway there and definitely not going back to nappies.

after a rubbish day yesterday, literally nothing in the potty, today has been 2/2 so far! it didn't help that we went out pretty much all day and he was wearing a pull up as I didn't want to cart around the potty and go through the hassle of wet pants etc. Totally my own selfish fault.
I think I just got sick of staying in. However today has started off well and I'm going to plan another day at home tomorrow as DH gets back. DS starts preschool on Thursday so I'm going to have to make decision on that whether we go for pants or pull ups

I should add we've changed from stickers as an incentive to chocolate

We've cracked it by all accounts. No accidents since Tuesday first thing.. And dry at night. Can't believe it my other two were much harder..

Hang in there Olives it's heading the right direction

Bit of an update, today was our first accident free day! So that's day 11 for us. After acknowledging that it was going to be the scenic route for us I now have renewed hope that it's actually going ok. Very very lucky that sainsburys are selling chocolate coins though We are going through a LOT of them.

Good luck everyone else doing PT - keep going