crazy horse

It's official. Ethan will not be the first kid to graduate high school in pull-ups. He has now pooped in the potty two days in a row!!

It's still not easy, mind you. After much frustration of cleaning poopy underwear for a few months, I started reading online tips and tricks on how to get a stubborn kid to poop in the potty. I realized I was about six months late - we had already messed up. Apparently you are supposed to get your boy to master the poo before allowing them to stand up and pee. "Only girls sit down on the potty!!" was the response every time I tried to get him to sit down. If he never sits down, how in the world will he ever poop??

So here's the trick that did it: Story time on the potty! We wait for the tell-tale "duster" (as Grandpa Stoffle would've called it) and then off we go to the potty for an engaging story about a loud mouse and a parade and half of a froggy book. And then... plop!! Very exciting in our world! Ethan will even tell you how long it takes to go potty: "a book and a half!"

He's got a chart and three more stickers get him whatever toy he wants. What is that special toy, you ask? Well he wants a "crazy horse", but he'll admit that he's never seen one in a store or even in real life. So a few more poos and we'll be on a mission to find something resembling a crazy horse. Yee-haw little cowboy, yee-haw.