Finally

It's true. The seemingly impossible has happened. Nathan, my 3 and 3/4 year old has officially christened the pot. This moment was a looooooong time in coming. He's done it folks. Wonders never cease... Please humor me in the play-by-play:


1) Despite many tricks and suggestions, he'd had no interest in the big boy potty. No desire to aim at the Cheerios or dress in big boy underpants. He liked reading his potty book, but wanted no part of acting it out himself. We were starting to think he might wind up the first kindergartner ever to still be pooping in a diaper.

2) A month or two ago we began giving him 2 M&M's for at least telling us he'd gone in his diaper and needed to be changed. It was something. Baby steps.

3) Then two days ago he decided he wanted to wear underpants OVER his diaper. Fine. Great. We'll take what we can get.

4) That night he decided to sleep with his potty, along with his teddy bear. Super. He might not want to pee in it, but at least he was losing his aversion to it, right?

5) Then yesterday out of the blue he informed me that he wanted to wear his big boy underwear with no diaper at all. I didn't care how many accidents we might have--we were going for it. He let me know later that morning that he actually wanted to sit on his potty. I ran to get it. Ladies and gentlemen, you can guess what happened next! I just about peed myself, I was so excited. He went several more times during the day, no matter that 2 accidents were also in the mix.

6) Later that night I was talking to my sister on the phone, telling her of his accomplishment, and added that I had no idea when he might poop on the potty too. No sooner had I gotten those words out of my mouth, then my son walked in the room with something behind his back and a big grin on his face. He then proudly presented me with a stinky little lump of brown from his potty bowl! We had to call the whole family up to see what he'd produced. He beamed.

Alright, there's no turning back now. And I think we're on the road to victory. Only one accident today. And only one more kid left to potty train after Nater-Putt.