Potty Training

Potty training can be REALLY expensive!
We decided to finally really push potty training with Lil'Foo this weekend. It's been chaotic to say the least but it seems to be working! We would like to get away from the Pull-ups, those wonderful diapers that are advertised as "big kid" underwear but as one lady put it in a book that we started reading..."a diaper is a diaper is a diaper!" they just can charge more for these. And they do!! So good buy to pull-ups for the most part, we will just use them for nap time and bedtime.
What became really expensive on this potty training endeavor is the little accident that happened yesterday, on Father's day of all days. After one of Lil'Foo's successful times on the potty he went to flush the toilet and after he flushed he told me that his pee guard fell in the toilet. I told him it was okay and I would get it out of the water for him. But when I looked in the toilet it wasn't there!! It wasn't on the floor or any where to be found! It had been flushed down the toilet and the toilet was acting funny. We tried the plunger and that didn't seem to help so we knew then that we would have to make call to a plumber and pay the triple overtime for a Sunday evening call on Fathers day! We did and they arrived around 8pm and gave us 3 scenarios that could happen, prices ranging from $300 to $3,000!!! We crossed our fingers and hoped that it would be the $300. The plumber spent 45 minutes trying to "fish" out the pee guard and it was starting to look grim and then on his last try and 4 large wads of toilet paper later it was pretty clear that the pee guard had moved on to the main pipe where it would flow away. Yey! Only a $300 potty training lesson!!!
For all of you new parents who are about to embark on potty training...buy a potty chair that has the pee guard as part of the potty chair not a separate flip up and down removable piece like we had!!!! Trust me it will save you money!!!!
Happy potty training!!!