This little piggy

This little piggy went to the bathroom......

Wanna guess who these little piggies belong to?

That's right! Little J. I decided to take the plunge on Friday afternoon because he fished in his diaper again at nap time. I think he was just really uncomfortable and he's been giving me signs that he was ready to potty train for a while now. Really I was the one holding him back. I just didn't want to have to go through it again--you know, being chained to the house, visiting every bathroom from here to eternity, spending half my day running a kid to the bathroom every 5 minutes--you know, the whole drill.

But I decided to do it anyway. And I must tell you, it hasn't been half bad (I'm praying I don't jinx myself). He had a few accidents on Saturday morning and really hasn't had too many accidents since then (only 2). He's even gone #2 on the potty twice (although we did have one accident with that in between). I'm kind of surprised. It's been so much easier than training Miss C. And she only took 3 days to #1 train (and a good 4 weeks for #2). I thought she was easy considering some of the horror stories I've heard. I guess there really is something to the second child wanting to be like the first. In a sense, he almost potty trained himself. My mom says this about my younger sister and I never understood how that was possible. Well, now I believe her.

The only draw back is that he is getting smart and using it as a tool to get my attention. Whenever he's mad at me he pulls the old, "i've got to go potty!" routine. Right now I'm trying to figure out when he's pulling tricks and when he's serious. There's such a fine line. I remember C did this too and it took me a couple of days to figure it all out with her. All in all, still not too bad.

editor's note: See, I jinxed myself. As soon as I started typing this, he had a #2 accident! We are still well shy of the 4 week mark that it took with Miss C. So I'm still hopeful :)