Pnut is doing great on the potty training front. Last monday, as you may remember, we started potty training hard core. My son is now a nudist, running around the house completely naked. We started out naked so he could start to understand how he pee’s, where it comes from, and how to stop it and go to the potty. By Wednesday, he had the concept down and goes straight to the potty when the moment arises. No more accidents on the floor, except for boo-boo’s. Those are a different matter.

Over the weekend pnut started a new trick. STANDING UP! Yes, he now refuses to sit down and pee pee, he wants to stand up just like daddy. And I must say he has GREAT aim. Hits the hole everytime. Now granted the seat might get a little wet but at least the floor is dry. It is so funny to watch him stand up and pee. He leans over the potty and puts his hand on the wall. So cute.

I made a potty chart to record his progress and eventually put in his scrapbook when he is done with his training. I put some elmo stickers on it out of his sticker book, which he thoroughly enjoys. We have little tiny stars that we stick on the chart for each thing he does on the potty. They represent the following.

• 1 star = pee on potty
• 2 stars = pee standing up
• 3 stars = boo-boo on potty

For the first half of the week he got 1 star, then he started standing up so he’s been getting 2 stars. He has only gotten the 3 stars once and that was yesterday after I caught him in the act of boo-booing and told him to stop and go to the potty. To which he did.

Often times, he goes in the bathroom all by himself, does his business and I don’t know about it till he comes and tells me.  He still goes to the bathroom in his clothes if he has real underwear or a pull-up on.  So we are trying to learn that even though we have clothes on that doesn’t mean we can go to the bathroom whenever we want.  It is a work in progress.