Super Pants~

We did it!

Trent is potty-trained by US before going to preschool next fall!  He beat his sister out on this accomplishment by about 3 months.  He has earned his super hero pants.

This did not come without some fabulously hysterical moments in the last two weeks.  The little guy just seemed ready.  And it helped that as the second child he was introduced to candy at a much earlier age, this ridiculously addicted.

You go pee, you get a candy.  Yay!!!!

We potty train with future streaking skills in this house.  Kids are naked from the waste down until they get it.  The steam vac and carpet cleaner bottle stays at the ready and go!

We have listened to our son yell, ''Moooooooom!  I want to be NAyyyyy-ked!  Naked!!!!  I need my shirt off!  Want to be Nayyy-ked!''

I firmly believe Trent need to be naked has more to do with the male genetic than streak potty training.  All men start young at this, so my husband tells me.

There are some moments that just make you think, OMG!  Trent sitting in the tub grabs his penis and says 'Whurrrrr!  Whuuuuuuur!'  Mommy, my pee pee like an elephant!''.  This as he plays with it like an elephant trunk.  The part of me that is WAY too conservative just cringes, but the mom in me is documenting it as a really cute moment.   That will turn him beet red in the future.

The first public accident is always fun....''Ms Willman?  Yes?  Trent tried to go to the bathroom and peed all over his pants.  We have him on the playground to keep him away from the other kids.''   Get to the kids area to find my kid covered in pee.  He didn't tuck things in properly and peed over the rim of the toilet.  The point is he tried on his own!

There is the suspected errant poop accident that turns into a sigh of relief.  You realize that your hippy child is naked.  You spot little brown pellets on your carpet trailing down the hall, then realize they are raisins.

Five minutes later it gets worse.....He just pulled down his pants and pooped in sisters Barbie pool.  Barbie has been dive bombed in her tropical oasis with Ken looking on.  She's never living this one down.  Trent commentary being, ''Mommy!  I poop in mermaid ocean!!!''  To his credit Barbie's pool is blue and bean shaped like a bedpan.

And now we enter the end of week three of potty training.  He's good 90% of the time, but that other 10% can be brutal.