Potty Training and Other Ari Updates
Jul 7th, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
For two days, Ari went around the house, without a diaper most of the time so he could go potty when he wanted to. This went fairly well, with few accidents. On the Fourth we went to my mom’s, and there he had pants on and told us when he wanted to go. While there he had to sit on the big potty, and has since refused to sit on his little potty, so we have to take him upstairs to the restroom when he wants to go. He has a stool he gets onto the toilet, then holds himself in place as he goes, then he gets off and flushes. Often he’ll get back on and do it all over again right away. Last night he got got up needing to use the bathroom, so we had to get up and let him into the restroom and let him go. He is using pull ups, which he can take off easy enough, but he hasn’t mastered putting them back on.
Meanwhile, Ari is counting to 5 or 6 fairly well, and can somewhat go to 10 even. He clearly recognizes the number 10.
He is grasping more and more concepts from TV and books, with a vivid imagination. If he sees food in a book, he’ll pretend to eat it. If he sees tissues, he’ll pretend to grab some and blow his nose. He saw a slide in a book the other day, sat on the book and went “wee” as he pretended to slide down the slide.
Sara gave him another hair cut, I’ll get pictures and post them soon.
