party, party

At 8:00 this morning we had a party: M & Ms, songs and phone calls exclaiming "Alexander made stink-stink and pee pee in the potty!" 

My son decided to show off his hidden talents and spent 45 minutes excreting every which way into his purple potty. He requested a closed door and "no mommy" for "stink-stink" however...I peered through the crack praying he wouldn't leave a gift on the rug.  We had sucess and he wasn't sure what  to make of it.  He saw how excited I was about the whole thing, but he seeemed upset that he left such a thing in his potty.

"Oh noooo, mommy! Oh noooo!"

For now it seems M & Ms are guiding the way. When he wants them, he offers to pee like he's doing me a favor...and I realize he may not do this again for days.  Or weeks.  Or whatever. We'll see how this goes, but of course we had to call yia-yia (grandma) in Greece and ask her to get a potty for our visit this month.  Just in case.

Comments

[Melissa B.]

This is hilarious. And exciting stuff! So far, Iliya has chickened out every time. We get as far as pulling pants down and then he changes his mind. Oh well... no rushing things. And I think it's great that you have no expectations for this to continue, and are letting A go at his own pace. Maybe this will stick, though, wouldn't THAT be cool??

[elle]

Yay!

[Aunt Wendy]

Who knew reading about someone's potty experience was going to be so exciting.

[harriet]

lol at him looking like the fonz and offhandedly asking, "i go pee?"

does he get more for stink-stink? all the mommies i know do one m&m for...number one and two for number two. hmmm....wonder if that's how they got their names...

m&m should really consider building an adverstising campaign around this.

[Susan]

What? I didn't get a phone call??

[kate!]

susan, the same incredulity just hit me. no phone call?

[kate!]

it bugs me that my name get typed in all caps here...

[beagle]

Shall I send a big bag of M&M's his way??

[Melissa]

hey its something. maybe i should change over from stamps and kix to m & m s