What am I thinking giving Toilet Boy his very own toilet?
Yesterday morning Honor slept until noon. NOON! I kept checking on him, but, good Lord, you don’t wake a kid up! He didn’t take an afternoon nap, but it was an acceptable swap. While we waited for him to wake up (a.k.a. enjoyed our slime free peace and quite), Eden and I consumed large amounts of our new favorite snack, Nutella and graham crackers. This is her, “Can I have more?” face.
After he woke up and we had, you know, lunch, I went down to the basement and pulled the training potty out. It was a little dusty, so we took it out side and hosed it down. Honor was so very excited and had to sit on it that minute, so I pulled off all his clothes and the sitting began.
Potty training boys is a whole different thing. They’ve got whole different directional parts, so I had to teach him that he needs to point his pee pee down. He got it down pretty quick, he’d hop onto the toilet, point it down and then hop back up. Over and over and over again. He’s just missing one little detail: the peeing part.
We brought the potty inside and placed it in it’s rightful place in the bathroom. Eden and Honor spent quite a bit of time on their potties respectively; Honor on the training potty and Eden on the “flush” potty. As they sat there together, I reminded Honor that he needs to point his pee pee down and Eden said, “I’m pointing my pee pee down.” “Good job, Eden.”
It wasn’t until I found this:
that I realized what I’ve done. What was I thinking? I renewed his love for the toilet without even realizing it. Sometimes I astound myself with my lack of rational thought. How in the world would I think that he could spend any amount of time in the bathroom and NOT make a mess?
But here’s my big question: If it’s supposed to GO in the toilet, does it still make the toilet list?
Category: Kids 10 comments »
August 9th, 2005 at 9:32 am
HAHA – that’s great – it definitely makes the list – how much paper was actually in there?
August 9th, 2005 at 9:49 am
LOL! How funny, I swear, your kid is gonna be potty trained before mine! How sad is that?
August 9th, 2005 at 10:35 am
“slime free,” that’s great! And I just loooooove the toilet list, too funny.
August 9th, 2005 at 11:10 am
Only if you don’t have to fish it out!
August 9th, 2005 at 11:15 am
LOL, I love that pic of Eden’s big grin! …”renewed his love for the toilet” had me rolling on the floor! Ah well, such are the joys of parenting!
August 9th, 2005 at 11:16 am
Guess what I found today… all of my bills that still need paid, torn and stamped profusly with the notorious ink stamp. I agree… that damn stamp!
August 9th, 2005 at 11:37 am
That cracks me up! When you told me you brought out the training toilet I would have never guessed that you might reignite his love for the thing!
August 9th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
Yes, “Let sleeping dogs lie” really means kids.
August 9th, 2005 at 2:01 pm
Haha, great post. The pics are great and potty training w/Honor sounds like such a fun adventure and probably lots of great pics!
August 10th, 2005 at 6:21 am
Your kids are too cute! You have a lot of great pics that they will really enjoy when their older:0) Have you seen those Piddlers?