Gavin has been 2 years old for an entire month now. He celebrated today by peeing in the potty. I was out shopping and Stacy decided that it would be a good idea for her and Gavin to kind of camp out in the bathroom while he sat on the potty. She plied him with juice, Spanish videos, and books and she even painted his toenails blue (the same blue as my toenails, in fact, and Stacy's. The family that pedicures together stays together, after all). After sitting there for 40 minutes (voluntarily, mind you. Stacy did not force him to sit on the pot for almost an hour, she just provided entertainment while he did), he peed. It was during the video, in fact, a Spanish-language Mickey Mouse cartoon on YouTube. According to Stacy, he didn't even look up, though he did announce a couple moments before, "Pee coming." And so it did. There was a triumphant dumping of the potty chair into the big toilet and flushing ceremony afterwards. I'm sad I missed it.
I also missed Oso pooping on the big potty. Oso is one of Gavin's stuffed bears and thankfully Stacy did a fantastic job of documenting the event:
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| Oso and Gavin, side by side, at a "business" meeting. (Get it? Ha. Potty humor. I apologize.) Note that Stacy has put plastic wrap on the toilet seat to support the illusion of Oso's impending defecation. Please also note that this tableau is one of the reasons I love my wife so much. |
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| Oso has success. Gavin is quick to help get the toilet paper as Oso's arms clearly won't reach our brand new toilet paper holder (Gavin broke our old one off the wall about a year ago and we just put a new one up. Keep your fingers crossed for us). |
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| Gavin gives Oso a wiping hand. |
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| Oso, continuously stymied by his lack of opposable thumbs, not to mention his his overly eager helpmate, cannot flush the toilet himself. |
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| As Oso is new to the world of toilet usage and cannot be trusted not to use the entire house as his personal bathroom (he is, after all, a bear), it is important that he don a diaper after his bathroom success. |
Oso and Gavin are clearly an inspiration to us all.
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