Toilet Training

Oh, toilet training--what a truly love-hate relationship we have!

I started naked toilet training a couple days ago, and it is going well. Today I am going to put some training underwear on him (not pull-ups, but padded underwear) and see how he does and how he reacts when they get wet. And yes, we call it "pee," "poop," and "toilet." The word "potty" will not be used. Right now his reward is being able to help Mommy flush the toilet, and he seems content with that; he has never been scared of the flush. I tried doing a high-five or a bump-it, but he didn't seem to care.

By the middle of the first day, he was able to try to pee and succeed at least a drop if not a squirt. Yesterday he started peeing in his toilet without coaxing from me (though not all the time), and then he would take the bucket part to the big toilet and dump it out. I had to retake that job, though, because he would get too excited about dumping it and I would end up with pee all over my floor and toilet. This morning, we had our first successful poop in the toilet. He had this concerned look on his face and was grunting, but he wasn't peeing so I didn't worry about it. Then he hopped down from the chair, ran over and sat on his toilet, and made. He looked at it and said, "Oooooh," but I told him it was okay. He looked at it again and then gave me a really big grin. It seems like we're doing fairly well! My goal is to have him mostly independent with the toilet use by the time baby #2 comes along, meaning I have about four months.