About forty-five minutes ago, around 12:05am, Alex woke up out of a sound sleep and got himself out of bed. Then he walked to the bathroom, where I found him after investigating the sound of his bedroom door opening. He told me he had to go pee-pee!

So he woke up, realized, didn't pee the bed and got himself to the potty!!!

And when he was done, he went right back to bed with no fuss!

Yay, Alex!

And lo, the Lord said, "Let there be poo and there was...and it was stinky. Amen."

So. Alex has now pooped in the potty, two days in a row!! ::gasp!:: and today, twice!!!!

I was talking to his teacher today and she mentioned he had not wanted to sit on the potty this morning and when told "Well, you don't get a coin to buy candy later.." he said, "That's okay. I don't need the candy anymore." Haha. He relented when they told him they were going to throw away the rest of the candy or eat it themselves.

Jenn, his teacher, and I were thinking the candy thing only lasted about a week..and then she hit me with "I thought getting him to do it would take longer..." and by that, getting him to poop in the potty like he is!

When we're home, he gets to sit on his little potty ("The big potty is scary, Mommy...") and play a game on the iPad. He now sits without fussing. At school, he gets a coin every time he sits without fussing and then at the end of the day, he gets to buy candy out of "Alex's candy shop"

Hurray!


Edit: I just figured out why I'm more excited about his using the potty...I'm the one that had/has to scrub the poo out of the underwear...-.-

Phrases I never wanted to hear from my son in the livingroom #1831:

"I wanted to make a pee-pee waterfall!"

Hooray! There's been a small potty training breakthrough! At the end of last week, Alex's teachers, Chris and I decided to try potty training Alex (with big boy undies). He's been in the big kid undies...with most of the accidents happening at home.

But today? Poops in the potty! Huzzah! But oh the smell..the horrid, horrid awful smell. So bad we had to open a window and light a candle.

To celebrate, we made surprise cupcakes! Below is a recreation of Alex's classmates when we walk in with the cupcakes tomorrow:

It's a Christmas Miracle!!

Alex sat on his potty without freaking or fussing tonight. Booyah.

It's the little things that make me happy.

Used the "Epic Win" app on the iPad to list all of Alex's chores. Got him to clean the living-room, vacuum, brush teeth, make his bed and get himself dressed without any fuss! Yay!

I give it a week before he gets tired of it.

Edit: Yup, took about a week for him to lose interest.

Since he's not allowed to turn the television back on when Chris and I turn it off, Alex has recently come up with alternative ways to get the television back on. This morning, he "accidentally" bonked it with his elbow as he was walking past.

Alex brought me a rainbow cupcake, unasked.

.....Then, while I was distracted eating it, he tried to sneak into our bedroom to get the iPad out.

Me: Are you using your listening ears?

Alex: Yes. Well, this one is working (points to left ear)...but this one isn't working (Points to right ear).

Edit: Later, one of Chris's friends remarked that Alex ought have his own Twitter feed. I posed the idea to Alex.

Alex: No.
Me: Why?
Alex: That's why. ::stare::