Some notable Jamie advances

[celticdragonfly]

Two Jamie advances.

Yesterday evening, I was cooking in the kitchen, and looked over into the living room to see a cute little playlet acted out.

Jamie sat down on Maggie's potty, fully clothed. He sat there a moment, then stood up, turned around, and looked down into the (of course empty) pot. He then clapped his hands and made a soft YAY sound. Then he went around behind the potty, knocked the whole thing down, and pulled the pot part out.

He's getting the routine of potty training down even though he's too young for it himself. That's peer pressure at its best.

Also last night after storytime, we just patted the pillow a lot and told him "night-night! bedtime!" and then left him and Maggie in the big bed, rather than putting him in the crib. We did close the door to the nursery as a precaution. I checked on them later, and they were both asleep on the bed, albeit he was sleeping mostly towards the bottom at a weird angle. But that's okay.

He did wake up a bit after midnight and come in to nurse and sleep with me, but it's a start.

Comments

[marymont.livejournal.com]

He's getting the routine of potty training down even though he's too young for it himself.

My mother claims that my sister and I were potty trained shortly after we started to walk, at under a year of age.

Da Boy self-trained on the trip across the country the week before he turned two. (What else would you call two wet diapers in a week, and "producing" when he got to a potty?)

Don't assume that because the average age is increasing all the time, your son, who seems to have the concept down, won't figure out the whole concept earlier than average. He may be one of the early ones who keeps the average, which includes the ones who don't train until three or four, down.