Potty Man

This mom thing 4 times over gets way less nostalgic and way more in the trenches. Don't get me wrong, I can coo and make dumb baby faces with the rest of them but I knew I had reached a new level of momhood when this week my third child potty trained and I realized today I never took a photograph to document it. Crud. So tomorrow he'll wonder why I'm making him stand next to his potty chair and grin. :) Thankfully by the time he's 30 with kids of his own who are potty training he won't remember.

Anyways, so as I was working with son 3 this week I began to notice son 4 who is not quite 1 yr was making quite a scene every time he needed to do his business. The solid kind. At first I would laugh and wait for him to finish and change him. But then as I sat watching him grunt while I was trying to get my older son to go on his potty an idea hit me. I put our potty insert on the real potty as my other son used the child potty and took son 4's diaper off and sat him down. The first time I tried he was not crazy about the idea and would have none of it. The next day when I heard him grunt I grabbed him...and the m&m jar :).

I sat him down, handed him an m&m, which he had first tried a few days before when I was rewarding the older boys for reciting their catechisms, and he was one happy little clam. A few seconds later I heard a ker-plunk into the potty and oh the fuss we all made. I am happy to report that since that day, Monday, my son has not pooped in his diaper! He has gone poo 1-2 times every day this week in the potty. And this morning he, from his high chair, looked at me and let out this fake little grunt. I chuckled at him thinking he was just trying to be manly when he said, "mama!" and then grunted harder. I said, "OH!" and grabbed him and ran. He giggled as I ran in excitement, I put him down, gave him his m&m and he happily pooped. :)

Oh happy day.