Big Boy Underwear...

A couple of weeks ago Parker took his little stuffed Mickey Mouse and told us that he (Mickey) needed a diaper. We put a diaper on Mickey and Parker started pretending that Mickey had gone "poo poo" or was "wet". He'd go "Uh oh...wet!" or "Uh oh...poopy" and would start taking the diaper off of Mickey and pretending to change it...he even asked for a wipe and wiped Mickey while saying "Clean the Mickey". It was too precious! Then about a week or so ago when Parker told me that Mickey was poopy I asked him if he wanted Mickey to sit on the potty chair like a big boy and put his poopy there and Parker said "Uh huh!" (that's a yes in Parker language) very enthusiastically! We took Mickey downstairs and Parker set Mickey down on his (Parker's) potty chair and said "Mickey poo poo!" He then took Mickey over to the sink and said "Wash the hands too!" We praised Mickey for a job well done on the potty chair and I talked to Parker about how Mickey was becoming such a big boy and that since he was putting his potty and poop in the potty chair instead of his diaper that Mickey needed some big mouse underwear!

I decided that day that we'd go ahead and buy Parker some big boy underwear, even though he's really not quite ready to potty train yet. I'm big on following a child's readiness cues when it comes to toilet learning and although he's not completely against the idea, I can tell he's not ready to take that plunge and I'm just fine with that. (afterall he's not even 22 months and is a boy) We went to Target and I saw some "Cars" and "Sesame Street" underwear...perfect! :) I handed him the underwear and we talked a little more about using the potty chair and how we'd have to put some big boy underwear on Mickey when we got home since he puts his potty and poop in the potty chair! Then I saw some "Thomas" the train underwear that I hadn't seen at first. I handed it to Parker in the cart and asked if he wanted to get some Thomas underwear too. He looked at me, said "Uh huh!!" and then brought the Thomas the train underwear package to his mouth and gave it a kiss! It was too funny and super sweet! :)