No Pee, No Wii

We are trying to find something that will motivate Claxton to be interested in potty training. We've talked about it and he understands it. This has been going on for months now, but he is just not interested. Now the truth is I am not worried that he will be going to kindergarten and still be in diapers. I'm sure we will have conquered it by then. However, I'm ready now. I've had two children in diapers for almost a year now and I am indeed ready for one of them to be past this stage. We bought underwear sometime ago and had it where he could see it everyday. For goodness sake it has Lightning McQueen on it, what 2-year old little boy would not want to wear that underwear. He wanted to try it on, so we did. And that was the end of that. We have seriously been considering purchasing something (you can call that bribery) that he would want and put in on top of the refrigerator for him to see everyday but not get until he is trained. The problem is he doesn't ask for stuff - at least not yet, so we really don't know what his hot button is that would do the trick.

Every now and then Brian will let Claxton play Wii with him. And there have been days when he gets up from his nap and says "let's Wii, I want to Wii." So this past weekend out of the blue, Brian told him that he had to start using the toilet in order to play the Wii again. He immediately ran to the toilet, pulled his pants down, took his diaper off, stood on the stool and tried. Nothing happened, but he tried. It was hysterical watching this whole thing play out. He did all of this with no help from either of us. He was completely on his own. So now we tell him, "no pee, no wii". We probably will regret this one day soon, but if it works I'll be glad. We didn't have much success today, but we are sticking to our plan. We'll see what happens.