My son pee'd in the potty.

It all started when he stood up in the bathtub and announced "pee pee!" 

Me: Nooooo! We do pee pee in the potty.

the czar: potty...

Me: If you do pee pee in the potty, you'll get M & Ms...

the czar: em-em-ems?

Me: Yes, three M & Ms...

And he flew out of the bathtub, straddled his purple potty and squatted...and pee'd.

Ah, that's my boy.

I knew he was exposed to potty training in Russia, but it was never really enforced. For an hour every morning the czar and his little group sat on a pot, then for the rest of the day they donned Pampers and Huggies under their ill-fitting sleepers. They had a closet full of diapers and each adopting family was asked to add to it...I remember running to "Okay" with Kate to get a big stash — the biggest and best because my son would be using them. I liked that store...Anyway, as I reported months ago, the czar knows what to do with this potty and knows what goes in there. He's just been freaked out to go near it. I didn't think M & Ms would seal the deal.

I won't be pushing him to get potty trained, especially since we'll be traveling for three weeks. My goal is to follow his lead and hopefully have him trained (kinda sorta) for his birthday. Whatever...in the meantime, the czar's papa will be thrilled to know that he currently pees like a girl.

Comments

[Melissa B.]

That is too funny! When is his birthday? He'll be 3, right?

[annmarie @ this blog]

He's a December baby and he'll be 3...and hopefully trained.

[beagle]

Yay Czar!!
I learned to swim for M&M's. Great parenting tool!

[kate!]

By December? No prob. (tee hee. How long has it been since you've said--or heard--that? Ages for me. No prob.)

Have a new store that you'll like WHEN YOU MOVE HERE called Karosel. Very similar but a little cheaper, has more stuff, and the check-out people are friendlier.

[Melissa]

dont push the standing up thing, your floors will be pee drenched.

[ME]

I AM SO PROUD OF MY BABY!!!!!

[Aunt Wendy]

That's cute... M&M's is what Kate from Jon & Kate plus 8 bribes her kids with! Alex got bribed with going to "school" she wanted to go to preschool but it almost took until the day the school started to be fully trained. And I really don't remember with Max. Brain freeze.