We seem to be limping our way into potty training (er, potty learning if that makes you happy) around here. It's summer* so I'm letting him run around the house sans pants** since that seems to be just about the only way he seems to notice that he's got something going on that's different than business as usual. We've had some mixed success around here but we need to work on his terminology. If we hear him say "I'm pooping!" or "I'm peeing" in this situation it means hurry up and get him on the potty before he actually starts going. But today, an actual milestone! He had a diaper on because we were out and about (visiting Judyboo's new office, walking the bike path, checking out all the trains, touring the Lois McClure, stopping to say hi to Snotty at the Grossology exhibit at the Echo Center, and having a bagel for lunch. Whew!) and when we got home Sam announced "I'm pooping!" and we rushed upstairs and he did his business.
This is a definite improvement over the incident-which-should-not-be-mentioned because it involves a bare naked Sam checking his "hemail" while kneeling on my fabric desk chair. It was not pretty and we'll leave it at that.
Sam's timing isn't all that great because in a few weeks we'll be flying to WI to visit my parents and as many siblings as can make the journey and I imagine that all that excitement and confusion will be enough to make remembering this new skill quite challenging. And flying, oh my; I have no desire to bring a undiapered Boo on an airplane.
* Unrelated but somewhat interesting. I read somewhere (in other words, probably not a reliable source) that kids in warmer countries learn to walk later than those in colder countries and the theory was that there was less incentive to get up off the floor when it wasn't cold. I'm not sure I buy that but Sam did start to walk in November when that's about the time the floors got really cold around here.
** Beth, remember that the name of the group that put on that goofy play we saw in Chicago was Sans Cullotes?
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Mary - I very much agree. I was more amused by the term than anything else. In an effort to be politically correct there are times people go way too far.
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