When your kids are ready before you are!

              My son is 21 months old.  He has hit a lot of his developmental stages early, but this was something that always excited me as I was so proud to see his growth.  Only recently has it become something I fear.  You see we have begun introducing words like pee pee, poo poo, and potty into our vocabulary to familiarize him with the words so that when we are ready to potty train him he would be able to communicate his needs.  Almost instantly he picked up the concept.  He began leaving the room and would return pointing at his diaper and saying poop poop.  Here is this kid (20 mo at the time) telling me whenever he pooped!  When he peed he had a harder time with; he knew the feeling of peeing and would say potty whenever he peed, even though the potty would be too late since he had already peed.  We got him one of the little step ladder to put on the potty where we put him on it whenever he said potty, to once again get him used to the idea.  We have been doing this for about two or three weeks and so today when he came to me and pointed to his diaper and said potty I did the usual: I took off his pants and diaper and sat him on the toilet, but today he actually went pee pee in the potty!!!!! How he came to understand the sensation before peeing and then to communicate that to me at his age astounds me!  It scares me too.  I haven’t done any reading on potty training yet and it is obvious that he is ready.  Ahhhh I am so not ready for this.  I am still so proud of him, just terrified as we are entering territory he is ready for and I am not.  Guess I better get on top of things and set out a schedule.  I am just so amazed right now J