What a Life!

Okay, if I had to pick one thing that was the problem with potty training Ben, it would be that he seems to have no clue when he has gone to the bathroom. He’ll sit on the potty and get up and I’ll happen to notice that he peed and I’m telling you, it’s news to him! And if he doesn’t know the sensation when he’s peeing or pooping, how on earth is he going to learn to control when he pees and poops?

So this morning he pooped in his pull-up. I cleaned him up and then had him sit on his potty while I cleaned up the bathroom and threw the dirty pull-up away. I was cleaning the house and had collected all of my dirt on the landing at the top of the stairs, which we needed to travel across in order for him to go back outside. So when I came in from throwing the dirty pull-up in the trash, I decided to go ahead and vacuum up “my dirt” too. I heard Ben holler something about going potty, but I just went on with what I was doing. I mean, he’s always going on about how ‘Joey goes tinkle in his diaper because he’s a baby and I go tinkle in the potty because I’m a big boy’ and such so I didn’t think much of it.

Well, when I went back up to the bathroom, lo and behold, not only had he gone tinkle in his potty, he knew that he had gone tinkle in the potty and was all proud of himself. We celebrated and he got to choose one of his toys to get down from the top of the freezer [they go up there when he isn’t playing with them nicely and he has to earn them back in various ways].

I’m not saying he’s potty trained yet. I’m just saying that perhaps he’s learned the sensation when he goes tinkle so he can learn to control when and where he does it. That’s all. Gotta keep it all in perspective, ya know.

Later on, Ben mentioned to me in a very serious tone of voice that “Farmers don’t wear underwear.” [Don’t ask – I have absolutely no clue where he got such an idea from.] I tried to tell him that yes, farmers do wear underwear, but he didn’t seem to want to take my word for it. So perhaps we’ll be making a trip up to the farm again soon to put this issue to rest once and for all. That portion of it, at least.

Onward!