37 Months!

Timmy is now 3 years and 1 month and we have FINALLY hit a major milestone that Tim and I have been looking forward to: Timmy is using the potty!!!  This was a particularly painful milestone to accomplish, we started and stopped the process with him a couple of times in the last few months.  I really think we were as bad at potty training as he was, starting on a Saturday morning asking him constantly if he needed to go, and by Saturday evening not asking him at all... but he really fought it the first few attempts also.  Last week we were finally committed enough, at our house we just left him bare bottomed, Mom tried going straight to undies.  We each had a major accident happen on our couches, and mom went back to pull ups!  After that I went on a shopping spree, I bought every Chuggington and CARS toy I could find, I'm talking two Targets, Kmart, Walmart, and Toys R Us in one day.  I told Timmy that every time he pooped on the potty he could open a new toy, and every day that he had no accidents all day, he could open a toy.  Timmy went 48 hours without pooping at all!  When he finally did it on the potty, he was so excited!  He even called Baba to tell her before opening his new toy!  There has not been an accident, in the pull up or otherwise, since!  And there have been days that he's managed to poop 5 times... I'm pretty sure just so he could open 5 toys!  We have stayed pretty much homebound for the last week... I'm nervous how it will go as we start venturing out of the house a bit more, but I'm sure by next week he'll be in undies during the day and pull ups just at night. Last night I knew we are in the home stretch when he stomped off in the middle of a temper tantrum to go pee in the potty!  ;)  This is such a relief, for all involved!  And I'm very thankful that I won't have to feel like I'm running an assembly line while changing diapers any more!  ;)  One child in diapers is more then enough!

"Baba, I have too many paper," said the voice from the bathroom.

I will have to get a video of him climbing onto the toilet too, it is acrobatic!  For now here's a snap shot:

We did have a fun outing over the weekend though, I took Timmy to a birthday party at Great Country Farms, for my friend Mindy's son, Blaine.  The kids all had a blast and it was nice to get outside and do something fun with Timmy.  Our weekends have been consumed with shave ice and then trying to recover from shave ice recently! 

Timmy's vocabularly continues to grow and you can have full conversations with him now.  His imagination is really taking off as well.  This weekend he was slipping off Tim's lap on the couch and said, "Save me! Save me!  Don't let me fall in the water!"  I love that he's making up scenarios without even using toys.  Another of his favorite's right now is to be hugging and kissing on me and then start saying, "Oh, Tyler" so I kiss him back and say, "Oh, Daddy" and we are silly together for a while.