Potty Talk

I must admit that I am pleasantly surprised by how easy #20 turned out to be. However, as with all things George, there are still a couple of things that puzzle me. For example, when I am home George nearly always comes to find me and asks me to help him go potty. I usually tell him "go get started and I'll be there in a minute" and he always replies "you get started now too." If I am not easy to find George will go out on the deck, pull down his pants, pee off the deck, pull his pants back up, and come back inside all by himself. So first of all, how did it occur to him that he could or would want to pee off of the deck? Second, why is it possible to pee off of the deck by himself but not in the toilet by himself? He always claims that he needs me to help him get his pants up and down, but having spied his peeing off the deck shenanigans I know this isn't the case. Other places George likes to pee include on the tire of the car, in the grass, off the porch, and the other day I caught him trying to pee on the "circle" (a covered man hole) in the road in front of our house. The poo part took George longer to get the hang of and there are many interesting, funny, disgusting (depending on who you ask) stories that accompany that portion of our potty training adventures but I'll save our poo stories for the next installment of potty talk. Consider yourself warned.

The glamor of motherhood...

I started off the day cleaning up a huge blow-out (the kind that requires a bath and then a Clorox cleaning of the bathtub). I follow it up with a very unsuccessful day of potty training. We have only been at it two days, but George has yet to pee in the potty. This afternoon as I was helping George change his underwear for the sixth time I asked him, "Where do we put our pee pee's?" He started laughing and replied, "On mama's head." My evening went like this: Make dinner, clean it up off the floor, clean up another blow out (the kind the fills the entire booster seat with diarrhea, requires me to hose it down outside, and another bath for Charlie). While outside hosing diarrhea out of the booster seat George pees his underwear again, then steps in some of the diarrhea that got on the floor. I cleaned up the mess, George got clean underwear and sat on the potty again while Charlie pulled everything out of the garbage in the laundry room. I put a pull-up and pj's on George and 30 seconds later (one and a half minutes after I was able to distract him into sitting on the potty for a total of 12 minutes) he came downstairs to tell me that he peed in his pull-up (the only time today he proactively told me).

p.s. I have committed to giving the potty training thing 10 days and if he still hasn't peed in the potty at least once I'll be moving to plan B: find a preschool that will take a three year old who wears diapers.