Sunday, April 24, 2011

Toilet training milestone

Today was the first time that Setri used his potty! He kicked up a bigger stink than usual about me putting a nappy on him, and so I asked him "Do you want to do a wee in your potty?", and he said "yeah". I figured he was just trying to get out of having a nappy on, but I took him to the bathroom, he willingly sat on his potty, and did a wee! I am so proud. We made sure to give him lots of praise.

The potty was the stupidly large one clearly not made for a kid younger than about 3, so I had to hold him up so his bottom didn't fall in. That's going to be a bit annoying for us both. Even the slightly smaller one we have (that wasn't handy at the time) is likely going to be too big for quite a while.

I'm not sure if Setri decided to use the potty because I spent quite a bit of time telling him this morning that he was only allowed to touch the toilet paper once he was doing his wees and poos in the potty (he tries to get to the toilet paper every time he's in the bathroom, chanting "Lau lau" (round round), with the aim of making it spin on the holder). He does seem to know when he needs to go, because he often waits before coming out of the shower so he can do a wee in there, and sometimes even goes back into the shower after he has come out just so he can do a wee.... I was even a little worried that he might train himself to only go in the shower! He still isn't toilet trained, though, because he weed in a nappy an hour or two after using the potty, but I figure this is one more step forward :)

2 comments:

Mikey_Capital said...

You suck! You and your talented baby!

Seriously, toilet advances at that age - wow. That's friggin' awesome. And how freaking expensive were nappies? We ended up using the Aldi ones even though they were covered in questionable artwork.

And his vocab skills! Is Gam using his book learnin' to advance stuff.

I read somewhere that hearing new words caused lots of brain connections to fire. So when theBoy was between 1 and 2 ... I'd read 15 minutes of 1970s archeological education booklets about Viking settlement.

Yes, that's right, I rule the nerd school.

Gam said...

has he learned how to quaff his mead yet?