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The whole potty training thing has been a rather slow process with Jack. He's been peeing in the potty for months - when we prompt him. Rarely though does he initiate needing to go so we're still in pull-ups and he still wets them. He had yet to poop in the potty. Until this weekend.
I happened to catch him in the act and swooped him off to the bathroom where we made it just in time. Drew was home as well and we made a huge hoop and hollering deal about it. Woo Hoo! You pooped in the potty! High five! What a big boy! Yay poop! (Ahhh parenting. You find yourself doing ridiculous things at times, don't you?) At any rate, Jack was very proud of himself.
The next day a similar scene played out, only this time Drew wasn't home. While still sitting on the potty and reveling in his accomplishment, Jackson looked up at me with wide eyes and practically shouted, "CALL DAD! HE'S GOING TO BE SOOOO HAPPY!"
And what parent wouldn't be?
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A couple of nights ago Jackson was taking a bath. He doesn't need nearly as much assistance in the tub now; so, while I stay in the room with him, I'm usually
On this particular occasion, I heard him say, "Mom, my penis hurts."
I looked up to find that it was, shall we say, standing at attention.
Drew was just around the corner, so I flagged him down and he arrived in the bathroom just in time to hear Jackson say, "Look! It popped out!"
Drew's reply? "Yeah, don't worry buddy, that happens sometimes."
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On Monday, Jackson moved up to the Two's #2 room. As expected, he had a total meltdown at drop off and cried for "his class". I was anxious to pick him up that afternoon and see how the day went. Turns out he had a fabulous day (and has every day since). In fact, instead of his usual routine of running to me for a big bear hug upon my arrival, Jackson took his time walking over and greeted me with, "Mom, we need to bring in some underwear."
Hi Jack, nice to see you too.
At any rate, 2 of the boys in his new classroom are potty trained and wear underpants. Jack was quite curious about it and was eager to wear underpants too. Even though he's not quite there yet, his teacher & I thought it would be a good idea to capitalize on this new curiosity. Maybe in this case a little peer pressure will be just what he needs to get over the potty training hump.
So we made special plans to hit Target after school yesterday and pick out underpants.
I expected the super hero undies, but little did I know the boys underwear aisle is like an explosion of cartoon characters from past and present. Star Wars, Superman, Batman, Thomas the Train, Cars, Spongebob, Finneas & Ferb, Toy Story - you name it, they have it. Jack must have changed his mind 15 times. Believe it or not, in the end he liked the plain old Fruit of the Looms best - because there were camouflage undies in the pack. Unfortunately, they didn't come small enough so we came home with this set instead:
We haven't tried them yet, but this morning he woke up at 5:00 am very upset because his pull up leaked and his jammies were wet. I thought it was a good sign that he was uncomfortable with the sensation of wet pants. Here's to hoping the transition to underwear is an easy one!
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And that concludes today's storytelling. I'll try to keep it PG around here. No more poop and penis stories I hope. At least for a little while.
1 comment:
We had the same poop and penis story at our house. The good news: eventually you do get to stop cheering at every poop and move to examining how big it is! The bad news: the penis questions don't go away. They turn into "Why wont it go down?" Good luck!
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