"Potty Time!"

So I thought I'd write a little update on Blake's potty adventures :) Quite awhile ago now, Blake started telling us (occasionally, not all the time!) that he had to go poo. He'd come up to us and say, "Poo" and grab his diaper, we'd check his diaper and there would be nothing and then 5 minutes later there it was! So we went to Toys R Us and bought a potty and put it in the bathroom and bought him a potty book (called Potty Time). And that's about all we did!

About a month ago Blake pulled his Potty Time book out of his pile of books. He's been hooked ever since! He knows the book by heart! So we asked him if he'd like to go potty like Jack does and last week he said yes!! Cal was off on Monday and spent a lot of the day with Blake and his potty!!! It wasn't just a one time, quick thing. Blake would sit on the potty and push a little pee out and then jump up and make Cal dump it in the toilet right away and wave bye-bye to it and then wash his hands and jump right back on the potty ... repeat, repeat, repeat! It went on and on and on! But we're finding that it seems to be more of a novelty then anything. He still goes in his diaper too! I don't have time during the day to spend with him on the potty. Maybe if he just went and got it over with, but not when he wants to spend hours there!! So he's going pee on the potty off and on. I'm not sure if he's really ready to be potty trained yet. I've read a lot about potty training and the "readiness" signs and he's almost there. We're glad he's at least showing an interest and when it comes time to get serious we'll have to set aside a couple of days and devote them completely to potty training! Probably when Cal has a three day weekend, so one of us can be with Em and the other can be on potty duty!!

If anyone has any tips/advice please pass them along! I have heard boys are harder than girls to train. I guess we'll see if that's the case when we try to train Em!

Tracy