My mom and I decided to go hang at the library, she wanting to get a book for the book club, and I just like the library. Erick loves it too. He runs around and is really loud. He gets up at a computer at the media station and looks like he knows what he's doing, but he uses his left hand to operate the mouse, and so he isn't doing anything to the computer in front of him, ha ha. My little pleasures. Anyway, Mom and I took turns hunting for books, and when it was my turn, I was rummaging through the biographies and I heard what sounded like a marathon runner. It was quiet at first, gradually getting louder, and I also heard a few giggles from a librarian that I saw in an aisle. I went to look for him, and I couldn't find him. The acoustics in the library are pretty good, because when I thought he was coming one way, he was really going the other. After he finished his literary excitement, we went back to the children section to get some audio books for him... and me. The librarian there directed me to some DVDs. One of the DVDs was about potty training.
Now, I'm not getting any false hope about him getting out of diapers or anything, I just thought it would be a funny and entertaining movie...for him. As it turns out, it was very good at describing the process of potty usage and even came with "The Potty Song", which does get stuck in one's head. So I thought, if Erick could get so excited for Joshua, the little boy in the story, and clap for him when he triumphed in his potty, I would get Erick his own potty. I brought it home, and suggested very nonchalantly about what a great potty it was and that maybe he should sit on it, but he didn't want to. So a little later, we played the DVD and I sat him on the potty, but I think it was cold or something, cause he didn't like it. So we finished the DVD and cheered for Joshua, and that was that. BUT, later on, we watched the DVD when Daddy was home, and he sat on his potty when Joshua did! It was SO cute. And he even clapped for Joshua all on his own without me prompting him to clap. Oh, the milestones!! It was wonderful. Then, when Nana got home, he acted like the potty was a bottomless pit that he would never sit upon. That's okay though, because tomorrow is a new day... a new potty.


If you give an Erick a cookie...