Connor has been having fits each time we change his diaper...kicking and screaming and making life miserable for all involved. So we thought maybe it was time to start some potty training. We've had a potty for a few months. Before the baby was born Connor was telling me when he had to potty, so I went out and bought a potty. And you guessed it...he stopped telling me. He likes to sit on the potty when I'm using my potty but he refuses to sit on it with his pants off...kind of the point of the whole thing.
Step 1 is to get him to sit on the potty a) for an extended time and b) with his pants off...enter the introduction to candy! We made it all the way through Halloween without him knowing what candy was but boy does he know now. I shoved him on the potty and gave him an M & M and told he could only have them while he was sitting on the potty. By about the third time of this we couldn't get him off the potty! And even asked to sit on the potty last night so he could get some candy.
During one of these rounds Dave let him take the M&M out of the container himself, but he told him only one. Well he took two and Dave told him, "No, only one." So Connor put both of them in his mouth and said "None!" Smart kid! So today I gave him a sucker (which he calls balloons) and told him it was a potty sucker and only let him have it while he sits there. He sits there and says "Red Sucker!" the entire time, it's pretty funny. We haven't had any pee yet but hopefully the pee will come before his teeth rot out of his head...which would be a shame since we waited so long for those to come in.
Another funny Connor story...Dave went in to Connor's room to check on him after he'd fallen asleep and he was gone. Dave looked all over and finally looked under the bed and found him dead asleep with none other than...Froggie! Froggie doesn't get much play time any more, but obviously he's still a bad influence!
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