Potty training starts again

Over the weekend we decided to restart potty training Ethan. We haven't had many actual successes yet. He's about 40% right now but it's only bee 3.5 days. We are taking a different approach this time. We went out & bought him a seat to put on the big potty. He doesn't seen to want to sit on his little potty at this time. We also have placed a reward system. If he succeeds & uses the potty he gets a cookie otherwise it's just a sticker on the chart. He could care less about the chart but it helps us keep track of what time he was on the potty & what happened. We are putting him on the potty every 1.5 - 2 hrs, in the morning when he gets up, before/after naps, & before bed. For some reason he is not interested in pooing on the potty he just waits till we get a diaper on then he does his business. I am going to have to come up with an idea that will encourage him to want to do his business on the potty & not in his pants.

We got Ethan's test results back yesterday on his hyperphe & his Tyrosene levels came back at 29 which is the lowest it's allowed to go. His phe levels were 1.8 which is the lowest they have ever been. He hasn't been getting the 35g of protein that was recommended. Ethan is into feeding himself & he doesn't want much help so it's very hard to judge exactly how much he is truly eating. After all about half of what he's given seems to end up on the floor. So for now we are keeping him at the 35g of protein. We just can't let his tyrosene get any lower but we can prevent that from happening by giving him an extra glass of milk each day. We also have a case of Phen X formula that we had received when it was thought he had PKU. So if need be we can give him a glass of that per day but it hasn't come down to that yet. Ethan goes back to the specialist in Feb so more will be known then.

If you look to the left of the blog in the sidebar there is a new badge. I am putting together a team to walk for the March of Dimes on April 25 2010. Our goal is to raise $100 in donations. So please if you are interested in donating just click on the badge. We can make our goal happen if everyone were to donate just $5. If you are interested in signing up to walk with our team please visit this link http://www.marchforbabies.org/team/t1366263 to do so. So far we only have 4 walkers so please come join us. Each person has to sign up idividually children included b/c we have to register upon arrival to the walk. It's being held at the Lucas County Fair Grounds on Apr 25 team members need to be there at 8:30 the walk starts at noon. It's a 3 mile walk so have your walking shoes ready. I will be receiving more information through the mail soon. There's supposed to be a packet being sent to me. Again this is really important to us so please either sponser the team, Team Ethan, or come join the team & walk with us. I will do monthly reminders until we get a little closer to the date.