Potty time begins

"I'm ready to poo!" said K this morning.

He has never announced this before. Usually he'll play quietly by himself and avoid attracting my attention after he poops, to put off the diaper change as long as possible.

"Do you want to poo on the potty?" I asked him.
"Yes!" he replied.

Once we got his diaper off, he didn't want to sit on the toilet. I can't blame him. But I asked if he wanted his own potty, and he said yes. Actually, he said, "Thomas potty." I did some research and ordered him this frog potty instead. I explained that the Thomas potty had hard plastic pieces that would scrape him, and he agreed to accept the frog potty instead. (And once again, I'm so glad K is not a baby anymore. It is such a relief to deal with a relatively rational person who understands what you say.)

My niece's birthday party was this weekend, and one of her presents was The Potty Book for Girls. K found it and asked me to read it three or four times in a row. I am pretty sure that's what inspired today's foray into pottydom.

I don't think we're going to push potty training, but I guess we'll start thinking about it and encouraging him to use the potty when he feels like it. So far we haven't actually "trained" him to do anything -- he learned how to walk and eat with a spoon and drink out of a regular cup on his own. Maybe using the potty could be another thing that he decides to do by himself? That's what I'm hoping, anyway -- I keep hearing all these things about feeding your kids salty foods and setting a timer and making them sit on the potty every half hour, and it all seems a little excessive and kind of unfair for the kid. If he's still in diapers by the time he's three, I'll think about using the official training techniques.