Well a couple days ago Belle was running around in her underwear. For reasons I can't seem to remember. She's going through a phase where she doesn't want to wear clothes. Anyway, Ethan noticed this and thought he would run around in his diaper. Fine, we'll just have a nudist colony in our living room. After about a minute I think Ethan realized that "hey sissy doesn't wear a diaper" and commenced to taking his own off. Fine I thought and went and grabbed him a pull up. Nope, he knew better. So what does he do? He promptly goes over to the basket of clean clothes and picks him out some underwear. His sister's underwear and tries to put it on. I gave in and helped him, knowing full well that I was going to have a puddle to clean up any minute.
I grabbed the potty seat just in case something clicked and he decided to use it. He'll sit on the potty for about 15 seconds, but nothing has ever made it in. So he ran around in underwear for a little while, occasionally pulling them down to sit on the potty. Nothing ever happened, but maybe he's starting to understand the concept. Of course he peed in the underwear and I gave him one more chance. I went and got something a little more appropriate, some white training undies. I even set the timer thinking that maybe we could implement that. Nope, peed right away in those. Well it was fun while it lasted. Now Nic and I can start preparing ourselves for potty training this summer. Im pretty convinced that it's 80% the parent. So as soon as we're ready to get rid of diapers and not turn back, we'll do the potty training thing.
Oh and we are SO getting a new potty seat. The little shield thing kept getting knocked off because Ethan is pretty short. We obviously didn't have to worry about that with Belle. If anyone has any recommendations, throw them at me.
But he did do a fairly good job of remembering to "push it down". =)
Talking to mamaw in his girly undies
Finally in something a little more appropriate
Oh and I have bought him some boy undies in case this comes up again. Had to get 18mos underwear for his tiny little butt.
Next weekend, Sara and I are taking Brody and Ethan to the Children's museum to do the Pull ups Potty Dance with Ralph's World. Should be fun! Maybe it'll get the boys excited about going potty. Well we can hope anyway.
