Momentous Event

Today while we weren't really paying attention to him, he did a fabulous thing! I was taking a nap and David was in his room with him reading a book while Dennis played. David heard him rummaging around in the corner, and looked to see him sitting on his potty. Then there was a noise, and a smell, and we deduced that he pooped while sitting on the potty. He was still wearing his diaper, but we're pretty excited about it! He made a real connection there to figure out where he was supposed to do that.

We aren't really teaching the potty--he's a little young. Our doctor said we could go ahead and try but he wouldn't really get far until he had words for what he was doing. So every night we let him sit on the potty without his diaper and read books, but so far nothing has happened. Last week I bought a movie for him starring Elmo, his favorite character, entitled Elmo's Potty Time. We've let him watch it a few times to distract him from his teething pain this week when nothing else would work. Apparently Elmo has been able to explain to him how the potty works, because he certainly used it with intent today. Thank you, Elmo! Now if only we could rent an Elmo to teach him how to wipe himself...