Cooper has been wanting to sit on the potty a lot. Mostly to copy Ben and to get some naked time. They like to do "naked races". Most times Cooper does naked races though, he pees on the floor, so I've been trying to make him sit on the potty first. He has peed in the potty twice, more like he coincidentally peed while he was sitting there.
Then the other day, he seemed to very purposefully pee on a pile of Ben's clothes on the floor. Nice.
Then yesterday or the day before, I was changing him and he asked to go potty. I figured it was an excuse to keep pants off. I put him down and said "OK go to mommy's bathroom" and I guess he went to Ben's bathroom but I went to mine and I had to pee so I went. While I was in there Cooper flew in and I could see a drip. sigh. I asked if he peed and he said yes and took my hand to show me. He had peed right in front of the toilet. There's no kiddie potty in there. So I thought that was kind of awesome even though it sucked.
Today I got him up from his nap and he walked over to his changing table and said potty. So I brought him downstairs to sit on the little potty, and he sat there for about 3 seconds and then peed. How crazy is that?
I am pretty sure he's too young to do much more than what I've been doing. But I can't believe he seems to sort of understand the concept already!
Re: ok this is crazy...
we just brought the potty chair into the kids' bathroom and have been having Rye sit on it. So far he thinks it's fun, but gets up quickly. He does say potty and grabs the front of his diaper all the time. Seems like he knows what he is doing, but can't control when at ALL. Baby steps.
gosh, can you imagine both kids being out of diapers? I've been buying diapers since 2007!
Yeah, I started at the end of 2006, and I did have a "break" for a few months before Cooper came. But still. I'm sick of it. But Ben's not night time potty trained so I'm still on the hook there.
L started having interest in sitting on the potty around 18 months, but like you say lacked to muscel control. Although he knew when he needed to go. He was fully trained at 2.5 exactly. I say roll with it.