potty talk

are you sick of hearing about bodies' pooping saga yet? well join the freaking club! we have been in constipation underworld since october 15th...and for the first time since i am starting to believe we turned a corner...

he pooped three times this week and didn't cry. hallelujah!

what did we do? did we give him more laxatives? did we give him flaxseed oil in every drink? did we give him stickers like that "doctor" suggested? well...no...actually...bryan decided to just ignore him. and when he did start the crying bryan would calmly tell him to stop crying. we told him mommy poops and doesn't cry...brother poops and doesn't cry...daddy poops and doesn't cry...bobby poops and laughs...and then we told him to go to his room if he wanted to cry...and we also designated a pooping spot for him. maybe the peer pressure worked...or maybe its just a fluke...but giving up my control over it (which of course i had little to none to begin with) is working.

this is just something i have learned along the way...over and over...and when it will actually sink in i cant tell you...

bodie has also started potty training himself. we have caught him peeing in the potty on his own about 10 different times. usually i just see his little winky sticking out above his pants and know what he did, but sometimes we actually catch him standing over the potty on his tippy toes trying to go.

this is extremely funny to me.

i am also not ready to train him because it seems whenever he does want to go it is at an extremely inconvenient time for me...and also because he says he wants to go and we take down the pants and off the diaper and then its just a trickle and then i have to re-clothe him. so i just bought him some pull-ups and am currently only dressing him in elastic waisted pants and i just let him work it out. again, i am assuming its the peer pressure. he sees all these other boys going potty all day long (i guess we aren't too big on privacy around here) and figures this is what you do. i figure at this rate, bobby will never have to be "potty trained" either...so that is a plus for having all boys for sure!

anyway - thank you everyone for your helpful suggestions and keep your fingers crossed, or more effective, prayers going, that this continues!