Portable Potty??? Ewww!

Years ago someone gave us a potty training toilet... wait, let's back up.  Some time before that, I had a visiting teacher come to see me and she brought a toilet with her.  I was beside myself.  Jackson was only a few months old so I hadn't even thought about potty training, but I remember thinking if potty training meant bringing a toilet with you, I never wanted to do it.  But then some time after someone gave us a little toilet with all the bells and whistles and I thought, hmm, maybe this isn't too bad.  Certainly we'll leave it in the house but this may just do the trick.  Uh, yeah, we never tried it.  No need because he used the toilet toilet and I was happy I didn't have to try to relate to the servants back in the day dumping out bed pans.

But here we are, years later, and Cole wants underwear.  This kid doesn't fit too well on the toilet and is ridiculously independent and I'm not too sure he'd succeed right now if he couldn't do it on his own.  All this to justify that I went out and bought a stinken' $12 froggie toilet because this boy does not want to wear a diaper.  I bring out all the kids' clothes each morning and he goes and steals their underwear and attempts to put it on - even Andi's.  And sometimes, two pairs at once.  So I bought one, about a week ago, and he still has not peed in it.  He sits on it all the time and Andi helps him undress, but he only seems to pee when he's focused on something else, albeit in underwear playing somewhere.  Again, grateful for tile!

Keeping all this in mind, I need to stop sticking Cole in onesies!

But I think it goes without saying, although I'll say it anyway, that we are not doing this full out until I'm ready - I do not need to be toting around a million kids when Cole suddenly decides he needs to use the restroom!

But at home, it's just fine - the kids work on presents for friends and santa and Cole hangs out on his froggy. 

And mommy does her thingys...