For Wyatt's 2nd Birthday our friend Kassie got him a Potty Elmo. Which is ingenious. It has a little pretend potty and comes with a hilarious video with songs about poop and pee (click the word video to view it for all you novices out there!). Wyatt watched the movie for the first time intently and even asked for it a couple more times after that. It is hard to tell how much it has helped. He has been doing average potty training. Hit and miss really. He has peed on the floor numerous times and crapped in the closet. But, the other day I actually saw first hand that he had comprehended what he was watching on the Potty Elmo video.
I came into the bedroom where Brett had fallen asleep and Wyatt was watching a movie. He had taken his diaper off, which he as been doing with increasing frequency. No big suprise there, but I wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to pee on the floor. So, I made him go pee in the potty, or sit on the potty I should say, because he never peed. When I came back into the room I saw that Elmo's potty was in the floor. I went in to take a closer look and I noticed that the pretend potty had something in it that wasn't pretend. For the life of me I don't know how Wyatt could have peed in such a small potty (think 4 inches wide), but he did. He didn't miss at all. Needless to say the vessel wasn't quite large enough for a real boy, so some of it overflowed down the sides. Wyatt came in behind me about that time and I asked him who peed in Elmo's potty. "ME!" he annouced pointing to his chest- so proud of himself too. I didn't have the heart to chastise him. After all, he saw it on TV, and Elmo expressly told him to go pee in the potty! Thanks Kassie.
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