If I'm not on the ball, he can easily work his way through a roll of toilet paper, but luckily the toilet never gets plugged up because he likes to "drain the toilet" so much!Last week at the library the theme in the children's section must have been "potty books" because, holy moly, they sure had a lot of potty training books on display. Nolan determined that we should check a bunch of them out and get working on Abram. We got the "cars" theme toilet seat out, or as Abram calls it, the "Ka-chow" seat, and asked Abram if he wanted to try sitting on it. He did, but at the last minute as I was sitting him down on it, he changed his mind, straightened his legs and one of his feet ended up in the toilet. For the rest of the day he told everyone he saw that he fell in the toilet and that it was s-c-a-r-y!!
I haven't felt like Abram is ready, and have told Nolan this, but as I have said, Nolan is determined that it is time for him to learn. I have told Nolan that he can be the trainer and he is taking his role very seriously. Every day he "reads" Abe some of his potty training books:
Then, he asks Abram if he wants to sit on his potty seat. His tactic works about 50% of the time. When it does, he is ecstatic, because as "trainer" he gets to share in the rewards. (CANDY!!) This morning, Abram kept acting like he was going to sit on the toilet, only to keep changing his mind at the last minute. Nolan is very frustrated. Who knows? Maybe Nolan will miraculously train Abe...and hooray! I'd be ecstatic! But if not, Abram WILL eventually be potty trained, and Nolan will still feel like he managed to train him after a lot of hard work and effort, right? Meanwhile, it's pretty cute to watch this whole process and relationship between the two of them.
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ReplyDeleteI deleted Eva's post because it was really mine--I didn't know she was logged in :)
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping Nolan succeeds sooner than later but either way I think the "Kachow" seat great!
Maybe after he's done with Abe, we can hire him for Josh. He's a year older than Abe and no where NEAR ready. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so cute! It would be awesome if Nolan were to be successful. Either way his future wife will love to hear this story. The potty book that did the trick for Kilynn was "The Princess and the Potty." Unfortunately, I doubt it would work for this little boy who is in to cowboys and such.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday by the way. I tried calling. I hope you had a great day! 29 right?:)
That is thee cutest thing ever! I love it! What cute boys. Keep us posted on Nolan's success training his little prodigee. That seriously is so cute.
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