More diaper tales

I am constantly amazed by Aaron. CD certainly brings your child's bathroom habits a little more into the spotlight because you can't let them go all day in one diaper like you can a sposie. Last night Aaron woke up at 1:30 am again requesting his diaper to be changed. Though I was not thrilled by having to get up and do it when I felt like I had just gotten to sleep, but it's nice to have a gauge for when he is wetting at night. I changed his diaper this morning while he was sleeping to get him ready to leave for an appointment. I was curious how soaked he was, but was amazed to discover he was completely dry!! This is the second time that he's woken up dry when I've changed him at 1 am. I don't know if it is a second fluke, or if he usually doesn't go potty after 1.

Tonight the boys needed a bath after playing outside, so Jared had gone on to the bathroom to potty and get in the tub. Aaron insisted he needed to go potty too, but I refused to let him go into the bathroom because I figured he just wanted to play with Jared. Once I was able to convince him he needed to get ready for a bath, I let him go in. He got undressed and then surprised me by sitting down on his toilet and going potty. He even emptied it! The boys had fun in the tub, then got ready for bed. I put a 'night' diaper on Aaron and was laying down with him - just laid down - and he told me he went potty. I asked him if he needed his diaper changed and he told me yes. I debated telling him to just deal with it, but instead I told him that it was ok to use the toilet if he needed to go potty. He said OK and got out of bed. He dawdled getting there, but he eventually did make it to the bathroom. Surprise! He went potty again!! His diaper was dry after all. He NEEDED to go potty, he hadn't gone potty. I need to pay more attention to when he tells me he's gone potty because he may really be saying he needs to go. So, he went potty, we got him all cleaned up and headed back to bed. I told him I'd get him dressed in bed, but by the time we got back to the bedroom he told me had more. We traipsed back to the bathroom and just as he sat down he had gas. He never did go potty again, but he didn't want to leave the toilet either. I'm thinking he may need to poop, so I told him that he's been trying for awhile now and it was time to take a break. When he feels like he needs to go again, he can go. I'd leave the light on so he can go right in. I decided to be brave and put him in underwear that way if he did run to the bathroom it'd be easier to get undressed. We'll see what happens. I may have a big wet poopy mess, but at least there's already CDs that it can be washed with instead of having one pair of dirty underwear!!

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Well, that was short-lived. Aaron went to the sink and was playing in the water. I had the thought at the time that it's going to make him go potty, but I didn't do anything about it. Apparently I should have paid more attention to the warning because that's exactly what happened. Oh well.

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Aaron started making whiny/crying noises about 11:40 pm. I went in and changed his diaper and he immediately stopped and went back to sleep. I'm thinking that all those times he's woken up about that time of night was because he went potty in his diaper. hmm I'm interested in seeing what his diaper situation will be in the morning.