Tonight, the J-Man achieved one of the most celebrated milestones in a person’s life. As with many of his grand accomplishments, he did it while he was completely distraught about something else. And honestly, we’re not sure what it was about other than he was probably completely exhausted, which is oddly enough another condition that sometimes brings about these mighty deeds. Regardless, today we celebrate!
He peed on a potty!!!!!!!
Woo hoo!!
Now, we aren’t actually potty training. (We’re waiting for a while after the baby is born.) This whole thing started because every night he would pee on his bath mat after he got out of the tub, and we were tired of washing towels and such every five minutes. So, we figured, what the heck? Why not pull out the toddler potty that was doing little else besides serving as a room ornament (and contemplating another life as a flower planter, perhaps) and sit him on it while we dried him off? Consider it part of the preliminary potty process (say that five times fast) and the rest laundry preservation.
After about four nights of sitting on it (which he did without much consternation surprisingly, though me humming the magic song helped a lot) and doing nothing, tonight after pretty much inconsolable tears throughout bath time, he stood up from his throne and bawled on my shoulder. Then Mary said, “He peed!”
So there we were cheering and practically crying with joy while the J-Man was crying apocalyptic tears of woe on my shoulder about some unknown evil that had nothing to do with the potty. But like with many things around here, we don’t care how it happens; we just celebrate when it does.
Yay, J-Man!
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THAT IS AWESOME!!!!!! J-Man is making such progress
This is great! Yay for our nephew!
I had to wonder though, since you said ON rather than IN the potty…..
Congrats! First steps!!! How long after the bean is born will you potty train? (We are waiting, too…)
@Kristi – (Man, I am SO behind on responding to comments! I do have a good excuse, though!) Since potty training will be a coordinated effort between us and school – with its wonderful structure and brilliant teachers – we’ll probably wait until the next nine weeks term.
We’re in a year-round school, which is roughly nine weeks on and three weeks off. The current term ends around the end of June, so by the time we might be ready to start, it’d be close to the end of the term. Plus, the next break is four weeks rather than three, so even more reason since whatever work we do might fall apart during the break. So, it works out that we’ll probably start sometime in August.
We still do the ‘sit on the J-Man throne!’ routine every night after bath just to get him used to the concept. He peed in it again recently, so we’re up to twice now!