Evan and monkey--1, Mommy--0

As the mother of an almost 3-year old, potty training is, of course, at the forefront of my mind. There's this weird pressure to have your child trained by the time s/he's 3...and I'm telling you folks...we ain't there yet. I've still got a week, though. :)

We've tried a number of approaches. We've got books. We've got DVDs. We've got reward stickers. We've got pull-ups. Pull-ups are useless, by the way. Why do they decorate them with super-awesome characters? How am I supposed to encourage Evan to give up his pull-ups when they have Lightning McQueen on them? Even the cheap Kroger pull-up knock-offs have police cars and fire trucks. He loves them! I think I'll have to go back to 7th Generation ones just so he'll be bored by them.

Anyhoo...I do have evidence that some of this potty training advice is getting through to him. Recently he decided to potty train Curious George. George did quite well... Then again, I think Evan has more patience than I do.

Enjoy the slideshow. Bear in mind that I didn't intervene--all of the actions depicted were from Evan's own imagination at work... :)