As if . . .

As if life wasn't busy enough, I thought we'd throw potty training in the mix. Yes, our little baby boy is now a big boy!

He's 31 months and from what I can remember the girls started way before that age. Any of you readers that have more than one child can understand that the first child isn't as hard to potty train in the sense that you have more time to work with them. Our second, Madison was a different story. We had started to potty train her but she regressed when baby brother came along. So I decided to wait until he was ready -- as my MIL says, "he won't go to college in diapers."

As you can see in the video below, Isaiah loves M&Ms (or nem, nems as he likes to call them). Don't ask me why he says it with his tongue hanging out!?! He say mommy, milk and other "m" words without sticking out his tongue. It is hillarious other than the fact that it makes him drool even more -- another thing I hope he won't be going to college doing!

So we got smart about the whole "nem, nems" thing and decided to make them his prize for going potty (and shame on the person that give them to him for any other reason)! He's done pretty good so far. He's made quite a few attempts with a high proficiency rate, but he gets defensive if you make him go -- like setting the timer for every 30 minutes trick. I've gotten busy with laundry and other things and haven't pushed the potty thing the last few days. I'll occasionally ask him if he has to go or he usually wakes up saying, "potty - nem, nems" or will periodically walk into the bathroom and go on his own.

I'm enjoying one of the last baby stages of our children. It's SO much less stressful on mommy taking this approach. Plus it's cute to see his little cheeks and see how excited he gets as he runs to the bathroom screaming, "Do -- nem, nems!" (because he gets two for going potty) or clapping and saying, "Yay!"