Adventures in Potty Training

Day One:
Wake up.  Pee pee.  Have breakfast.  Pee pee.  Wait thirty minutes.  Pee pee.  We've got this!  It's nine thirty and no accidents.  9:56am.  Bathroom trip in four minutes.  Teddy tries to climb on my lap and I get a palm full of wet bottom.  Teddy says, "Uh oh."  Back to the bathroom.  Pee pee.  Change underpants.  10:11am,  Dark spot forms on front of grey underpants.  Back to bathroom.  Pee pee. Change underpants.  Today is the only day in the past year that he wants to sit on my lap - in his underpants with an unreliable bladder.

Number of times using the potty: 17
Number of pairs of underpants used: 7
Number of pull-ups used: 1
Number of wet pairs of underpants: 7
Number of twosies in the underpants: 1

Overall success rate: 58%

Day Two:
Follow same steps as day one, with one exception:  Every five minutes Teddy says, "Pahee?  Pahee?"  This is great except I'm pretty sure he's only doing it for the Teddy Grahams!  Sometimes he asks to go to the potty immediately after we return from the potty.  But, hey.  Whatever works.

Number of times using the potty: 1,901
Number of pairs of underpants used: 3
Number of pull-ups used: 1
Number of wet pairs of underpants: 3
Number of twosies in the underpants: 0

Overall success rate: 99.8%
(just kidding. He probably only went thirty times which would be a 90% success rate.)

Day Three:
Take Teddy to potty every twenty minutes unless he asks.  At one point this evening he says, "UH OH, pahee!  Uh oh, pahee!"  I feel his pants and say, "Uh oh potty, indeed!" and rush to the bathroom, where he pee pees in the potty even more!  I think he's kind of like a dog who needs to mark his territory, because he always saves a little pee pee.

Number of times using the potty: probably 20
Number of pairs of underpants used: 3
Number of pull-ups used: 1
Number of pairs of wet underpants: 2
Number of twosies anywhere: 0

Overall success rate: 90%

Conclusions:  Though I did a modified version of the three day potty training method (i.e. I didn't throw out diapers - still using them for night, pull-ups for nap), I conclude it's going to take longer than three days.  He did get markedly better about the number of accidents; he is incredibly motivated by Teddy Grahams. Taking into account the declining number of accidents each day, I expect him to be fully trained by Friday.  Just kidding.