Ahhh busy, busy, busy

I feel bad because every night I have a great idea for a blog post, but am too spent to sit down and catalog my day.  I know my posts have been hit or miss, but I plan on trying to make this a daily habit as I once did.  On that note I figured I would share some of the funny potty training moments we have experienced.  To encourage my son to “pee pee and poo poo” on the potty we have been gushing enthusiasm and encouragement, something Dorian now comes to expect every time he does his business.  I have a three month old baby at home, which as you can imagine means a lot of breastfeeding to keep my little girl growing and there have been several times my son’s potty trips and her feeding times have overlapped.  Once such time he indicated he had to go pee pee and went running off.  He came back into the room soon later squealing with delight at his success.  I congratulated him and finished off my daughters meal before I went in to empty out his potty when I realized he hadn’t gone pee pee, he had gone poo poo and in his excitement for my encouragement had come running through the play room and living room dropping defecation off his un-wiped bottom.  I cleaned up his mess and he came proudly into the bathroom pointing at his BIG accomplishment yelling over and over “mine, MINE!”  I thought it hilarious that he felt the need to claim his poop, but continued to reward him with the encouragement he was seeking.  Let’s be honest about this, I still know some grown men who take pride out of the size of their defecation as I have heard the banter about it before.  Later that evening I was on the phone telling my sister of his accomplishments when I saw my son bring something in to my husband.  I watched distractedly as my husband tried to figure out what my son had brought him.  I continued with my conversation until my husband jumped up out of his seat in a loud voice exclaiming “EWWWWWW, this is poop.  POOP.  Where and why did you give me poop?!”  I was laughing so hard.  I knew I must have missed some of his excited poop dropping but couldn’t stop laughing to explain where the elusive poop came from.  My son must have heard me talking about his success and saw a piece of it and wanted to share with his daddy.