Getting closer

Every day is a new step in the potty training department. I’ve received tons of advice and opinions from nearly everyone I know, and some of it I’ve even taken to heart, but Dash continues to pretty much go at his own pace.

Not that I’m complaining: he just turned three and I’m not nearly ready to start stressing out about the whole thing just yet. I just want to take advantage of the fact that he is interested in it, and eager to please while I can. He’s still hopping on the potty, grabbing toilet paper, and informing me about everything that leaves his body right after it’s too late. It’s ok, though, because at this point I’m beyond being shocked concerning where his poop and piss might show up.

This morning I witnessed him lower his briefs to his upper thighs and urinate on a book. It was one of those slow motion events that you know you can’t stop so you just sort of stare (not unlike the lotion incident the other day). Later in the afternoon, I caught him hiding behind his easel pinching out a poop onto the floor.

“Well, I found the goldmine,” I yelled to Mike, who was in the other room.
“Goldmine of what?”
“CRAP!”
“What? What happened?”
“No moron, it’s a goldmine of feces. Literally, it’s crap.”
“Rad.”

I keep forgetting how young he is, Paige. Jake trained really late too, I think he was over 4 before he was fully potty-trained.

You’re right, he will go at his own pace. Just be happy you don’t have two in diapers, okay?

Nate was past 3 when he finally got it too. I think that letting them go at their own pace lessens the bed wetting problems. He used to always pee in the potty but poop his pants. Then he’d walk around and I’d find trails of rabbit like turds that fell out.

Will it help if I commiserate?

My son used to poop behind the curtains. I mean, my son used to take off his big-boy pants, hide behind the living-room curtains, and poop on the floor. Seriously.

Making a bad situation worse: it was always stinky.

Oh Summer, I feel for you. Somehow things are always easier when someone else has had it just as bad or worse.

Potty training sounds like a blast.

Your new design made me chuckle, by the way.