Thanksgiving and Potty Training

For Thanksgiving this year we pretty much just played with the kids, ate a lot of food, and took naps. Here are a couple of pictures of us sledding. Snow was something we were Thankful for that morning.

Something else I am very thankful for today is that Abe has finally pooped on the potty! Yeah! I've tried and failed 6 times to potty train him, and finally, the 7th try is working!!! I am so proud of him. It was fun to see him so happy about it too. I just let him be naked, set the potty out in the middle of the room, and went about my business doing laundry and whatever else. I didn't even know he had pooped until he brought the potty pail up to me and shoved it in my face like it was this huge prize...he just grinned like he was the bomb and we marched around the house chanting "Abe poops on the potty!" millions of times after which I made him cookies to celebrate. Later that day he walked up to me, apparently still reminiscing about the poop experience, and said, "I just squeezed it out, Mom" like it was no big thing. Now he gets to wear his Deigo underwear and he keeps reminding me that he's a big boy. Go ABE! I learned through all these attempts to potty train and the eventual sucess that you cant force it. He pooped on the potty when he decided he wanted to, not when I told him to or bribed him. Its got to be intrinsically motivated, I guess. Hopefully I wont torture myself so much with Breanne now that I've learned my lesson!