Horray!!!

I definitely wasn't planning on writing a post tonight, but I absolutely cannot resist!!!

Why? Because HE FINALLY DID IT!!! KOLBE FINALLY PEED ON THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell that I'm a little bit excited??? For those of you with older kiddos, I'm sure you can remember the day when that first miraculous little trickle sprang forth from your little one into something other than his or her diaper. For those of you with little ones younger that mine, (or that haven't figured out the potty yet) just wait! It's awesome! You would think that we won the lottery or something!

Maybe it isn't that big of a deal. But for some reason, it is to me! Maybe it's that's I've been wiping Kolbe's dirty hiney for twenty-six months. Or maybe it's that I've been wiping two dirty hinies for the past eleven months! Either way, just the thought that only one in diapers is just around the corner literally made me go to the kitchen and pour myself a celebratory glass of wine.

As for potty training, we haven't even started yet. I originally planned on starting it back in October, but for one reason or another it has been put off and put off. I've decided that I want to do the three day "cold turkey" method where you basically let them run around nakie for three days, watching their every move, and rushing them to the potty the second you see either form starting to "emerge". I've had several friends with success in this method, so I thought I'd give it a try. That being said, it's almost a necessity to have a helper with this process since there's no way I can give Kolbe 100% of my attention with Reagan around. Since Mom is my elected helper, I've had to work around her schedule too, and we just haven't been able to get this started.

We finally decided on the end of this month so for the past week I've really begun to pour on the "potty talk" with Kolbe. Uncle Brian and Aunt Cristi gave him a potty DVD for Christmas that he just loves. He has several potty books that we read too. Every time we change his diaper we talk about how it's yucky and nasty and big boys don't have to go in their pants. He also gets to sit on his big boy potty or the real potty whenever he asks.

Tonight when he was getting out of the tub, he kept saying his hiney hurt. Since I knew he hadn't gone #2 all day and nothing had happened to make his hiney hurt, I assumed it might be bathroom related. We let him sit on the potty to no avail, but every time I told him it was time to get off and go get dressed for bed, he insisted on staying. I allowed him to stay on his little boy potty while I took Reagan to the other room to nurse.

Mark was in the office studying and I could hear Kolbe in there saying, "Dada, Dada." All of a sudden, Mark came running in to the family room saying, "He did it! He did it!" Around the corner they came, potty in hand with a lovely yellow liquid inside. We were all jumping up and down as if a miracle had happened. Being the disgusting mom I am, I even got out the camera! Apparently on his own, he finally decided to go and then took it to daddy to show him.

Ahem, I interrupt this blog post to bring you an update! Seriously, while I was typing this (and Kolbe was enjoying his reward for peeing of laying on the couch and watching his Potty DVD) he just decided to let off a poopy in his potty too! I am not even kidding you!!! I have pictures (that I won't disgust you and post) to prove it!!! He just up and decided that he needed to go and got up the courage to do it!!! And to add to that, after we flushed the poopy, he got right back on and went pee again. Is it possible that he could just all of the sudden figure this out? Can I go pour myself a second glass??? Am I bizarre for being so excited about this???