All By Himself - He Took Himself To The Potty!

Just a few short moments ago, Tommy yelled at TM from the bathroom, "PEE!"

TM went to the bathroom expecting to find Tommy standing near the toilet with wet undies, which has been the "normal" event for the past couple of weeks. Instead, the underwear was laying on the floor (dry, by the way) and Tommy was seated on the Baby Bjorn Little Potty. As TM entered, Tommy stood up. Lo, and behold, there was pee pee in the pot!

One of his big sisters was using the toilet at the time, and I guess he decided to join her. Earlier in the evening, while TM was using the toilet, Tommy had removed his undies and enthroned himself on the little potty. He also peed on that occasion, which was only the second time he had peed in the Little Potty. His normal potty place is on the big toilet, using the baby seat.  But TM assumed that he had gone into the bathroom only because he was following her. (You other mothers know all about this, right? When was the last time you went to the bathroom alone?)

There will be no delusions or expectations that taking himself to the potty will become the new normal. But the fact that he did it this once shows that he is making progress towards toilet independence. And that means a lot. It feels good.



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A New Development

Tommy has started doing something very exciting! He is now just over 13 months old and yesterday he walked to the bathroom door (it was closed to keep him from playing in the toilet) and said "pee pee". Actually it was his cute, baby version of "pee pee" which sounded more like "pah".

Today, he did it again. After peeing a tiny bit in his underwear he headed for the bathroom to finish the job.

TM decided to try to get away from diapers altogether and has been contemplating how to accomplish it. The first step has been to switch from using the prefold diapers and diaper belt to using Gerber Training Pants
during the day while at home.

Tommy will need some more pairs of undies because his older brother has put a lot of wear on the ones he has now. Unfortunately, it is impossible to find the 18 month size training pants in stores, so they will have to be ordered from Amazon.

For times away from home and for nighttime, Tommy will be transitioning to All in One Waterproof Training Pants
from the disposable diapers he is using now. These are also made by Gerber and are available on Amazon.