Potty Break

So, as promised, I am elaborating on Jackson's bathroom habits. I promise I won't get to graphic because really who wants to go there. I would never have normally spoken of this subject, but it is funny what motherhood does to you. How it changes you. You all of a sudden get real excited about bowel movements and other weird things. And not only that, but you are willingly blogging about them!
Well, I will just start at the very beginning.
To give you just a smidgen of history, Jackson has always been very easy to read when it came to this particular subject. From the time he was born, he made faces and noises telling the world that he needed a little "release". Well, from the time he was little Joey and I have always said things like, "Are you poo pooing?" when he was grunting and turning red. We would laugh and move on. Well, about three weeks ago, instead of grunting while doing his business he said, "poo poo". Again, we lost it and laughed hysterically, wishing we had caught it on film for black mail in the future. Well, a couple of weeks ago my mother came into town and she hadn't seen this new trick yet, so as she was carrying him back from his room he said "poo poo". My mother being the, lets just give it a try type person, said oh well ok you need to go potty, lets go. She put him on the potty and the next thing she knew, he had done his business right there. My mom is everyone's biggest cheerleader, so having her cheering and clapping for him made him LOVE the bathroom. She told us what she had done, so we decided to try it. Sure enough, about half of the time he would say when he was needing to go, so we carried him in and sat him on the toilet. I sit there with him and whats funny is sometimes it takes a good 5 minutes or so, so we sing, or play with the toilet paper until he is ready and then he just goes. Now, he has started saying bye bye and waving when we flush the toilet, its hysterical! He has gone five times in the potty this week, which has just blown us away. If it weren't for my mother, we never would have even attempted this. We would have never thought a 13 month old would be at all interested. Now, I need everyone to know that we don't think he is a potty prodigy. We are not throwing out the diapers yet, and we are definitely not expecting him to be potty trained in the near future. We just want to make it a familiar thing for him, for when he is ready. We hope that when he is more capable to tell us when he has to go, that the potty won't be a scary weird new thing, but it will be old hat. Only time will tell. Our pediatrician thinks we're nuts, and says he thinks he'll be three when he is potty trained, which could be true, but for now, why not try. As my mom taught me through this, you can't underestimate your child and what they are capable of.