Hap-pee News!

If you saw my Facebook page, you probably already read the news, but Logan peed on the potty for the first time tonight!  He was trying so hard to pee that he even squeezed out a little poop to go with it!  Way to go little guy!

Here's the story:

Logan was getting a bath, and at some point during the bath he told me he peed.  I asked if he peed in the water and he told me yes.  This totally grosses me out by the way, but I know it happens, probably on a daily basis.  At the end of the bath, we were cleaning up the bath toys, and Logan was standing up in the tub.  He told me he was going to pee in the water, but I didn't believe him.  I figured he had already done it and that was it.  But sure enough, a few seconds later, he started grunting and squeezing (I was afraid he was going to poop instead of pee) and he squeezed out some pee!  I had no idea the kid could pee on demand like that, but I figure he drinks so much milk throughout the day that he probably has an almost-constant stream of pee coming out of him anyway.  I let him finish, again thinking how gross it was that he was peeing in the tub, but I didn't want pee on my bathroom floor either.  I dried him off, and then he asked me to pee on the potty.  I told him I thought he had squeezed all the pee out, but I would let him sit up there anyway.  I sat him backwards because he's so little and I didn't want pee squirting all over my bathroom on the off-chance that he went again.  After a few more seconds of grunting and squeezing, he did it again - this time in the right place!  I was amazed!  And like I said, he squeezed so hard he even got a tiny little poop out too.

I have mixed feelings about this whole experience.  I'm so proud of my little boy, and he clearly was too.  But I'm not sure this is something I want to take on with a new baby coming in six weeks.  I hadn't planned on starting potty training until closer to next summer, when it wouldn't be an added responsibility for my father-in-law/baby-sitter to have to deal with.  Logan isn't even two yet, and I really don't know that he's quite ready at this point.  I'm not ready to deal with a child who has to use the bathroom at inconvenient times, such as when we get in the car to go somewhere or in public places.  (I'm totally repulsed by having to let my child use a public toilet, but I just think thank goodness he's a boy.)  But I guess, as with most parenting, I don't get to decide when my child reaches this developmental milestone.  We are going to get out his little kid potty this weekend and set it up for him.  I figure I'll let him try before bath/bed each night and whenever else he asks to go on the potty.  I'm not going to push this issue very hard right now, though I am excited for the day that I will only have to buy diapers for one.