So, people keep asking me when i'm going to start potty training my 2 year-old. yeah, i pretty much stopped with the whole pro-active parenting thing with my third, it's kinda like, "oh, he's supposed to be doing what at this age? hmm, i guess he'll eventually learn". it's not laziness or indifference, it's just the whole learning-to-not-micro-manage-everything-in-life-especially-my-kids thing. it's actually going pretty well. i love not getting upset over spilled milk, or even the beautiful permanent marker design jonathan drew on our wall 2 days ago (its a fauxed wall, so it's not like i can just paint over it quickly). since the lines are all vertical, i'm thinking of drawing flowers on top of the stems he drew and leaving it for a while...i'll keep you posted.
anyhoo-back to potty training. i bought a package of pull-ups and just decided to put them on him occasionally, but i'm not really interested in doing the boot camp thing or anything. we've done it a few days, not much success. so, he just came over to me with a pull-up & took off his diaper. i said "ok, this is for big boys, you need to use the potty, okay?" he nods yes. about 5 minutes later i hear the toilet flush. i walk in and there is pee everywhere! he pulled down the pull-up, peed, and flushed without a word to me. wow-i guess we'll work on aim next...eh, he'll get it on his own eventually.
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Potty training is the hardest thing EVER! I have hated it with my first two and I am not looking forward to when the baby needs to be potty trained. Lucky you, yours wants to potty train himself. Good luck with that!
I love your approach to life right now! Awesome! Ya, with Trent, when he was a little under 2 and 1/2 after Annabelle was born, I put him in underwear and said, "you are a big boy and go on the potty now, no more diapers" and after about 3 days of accidents we were good.
Love ya!
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