The Joys of Potty Training

Anyone who has been around us lately may not believe the title of this post but there have been a lot of fun things about potty training.

For starters, you get to see Jack's cute buns in his underwear. He loves the lack of clothing requirement right now. He would wear just his underwear everywhere if we let him. My favorite story is when he was wearing just his Buzz Lightyear underwear while watching our neighbor's son take down some dead limbs in their tree with a chainsaw. Jack joined them in their yard and helped them drag the branches to the street. It was a hoot.

Or the other day when some friends were over and we got out the wading pool. I just stripped him down to his underwear and he splashed around. After he was thoroughly soaked he made the announcement, "My underwear is taking a bath." That still makes me smile.

Here he is helping Addy and me make cookies.

(Side note: Check out Addy's outfit. She requested to wear her alligator pajamas over her dress. At one point during the day, she had her feet in the pajama feet too)

Addy is loving the potty seat too. Jack loves to encourage Addy to use his potty. To be honest he is quite happy to encourage anyone else to use the potty. He is thrilled when he sees his friends use the potty. My favorite was when we were visiting our friends the Robinsons and Jack witnessed W1 use the potty. He walked up to him and put his arm around W1 and said, "I so proud of you." (He also likes to invite himself into the bathroom with me or Ryan and frequently tells us that he is proud of us for using the potty. :)

We get to make up lots of songs to encourage staying on the potty. I never knew how many ways I could sing about the potty. However, my entertainment must be working because today Jack made up his own potty song while sitting on the potty chair. To the tune of "Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush," he sang, "Here is where we put the peepees, put the peepees, put the peepees. . . I love you." Pretty fun stuff.


We're baby stepping our way through potty training but we keep moving forward. I think my friend, Lue, has the best reframe of our current situation, "Just think of how much you will value Jack's assertiveness and strength and tenacity when he is a teenager or young adult and you are sending him out on his own to stand up to all the evils in the world. You will be grateful then for what you know now--he cannot be budged (not even by promises of Oreos, new trucks, a new train, stickers . . . )and is true to what he believes."

words in italics added by me





We're getting more creative and today we had


some SUCCESS!

There are now stickers on his chart.