Gold!
Magnus has spent the past several weeks pulling off his pull-up,
climbing onto the big potty (he refuses the insert seat), flushing the
toilet while he is sitting there and climbing back off to start playing
in the sink. Nothing has come out of him into the potty. He
wants to play with the soap at the sink for hours with the water
running full blast so he can reach it. This is not something I
have been encouraging, because it is damn annoying.
If I don't turn the water on for him, he climbs onto the toilet lid and
leans over to turn it on for himself. He has fallen several times
with this.
He has trouble pumping down the soap. But I can't do it for
him. He must do it himself. Which tends to end up with him
shooting the soap into his face and usually his mouth. We have
gotten lucky so far that it isn't a straight shot to the eyes.
Hand soap isn't tear-free.
Soap ends up coated everywhere. Magnus slips and falls and screams.
About two nights ago, the bathroom door was left unlocked by
mistake. The next thing I now, I hear water splashing.
Magnus and Douglas had pulled all the remaining toilet paper off the
roll (thankfully, there wasn't much left), put it in the toilet and
were trying to get it all back out. They were both in the toilet
elbow deep.
Just had to take a break. Magnus just ran up to me with no diaper
and a brown behind. I swear, it is so tempting to put him in
onesies so he can't get the diapers off.
Anywho, although I try to clean the toilet fairly regularly, it is
still a toilet and I am completely creeped out by them touching
it. So, I don't encourage this behavior for all of the above
reasons.
Yesterday, Magnus was trying to get Ben to open the bathroom door for
him. Ben asked him if he needed to go tinkle. Magnus nodded
enthusiastically. Ben took him in and sat him on the potty.
Nothing happened except for Magnus flushing the toilet. Magnus
hopped off and went to wash his hands. Ben gave him a demo and
Magnus was facinated. He climbed back up on the potty and
peed. He did it again last night and again this morning.
The whole thing is pretty cool. But also a headache. There
is the whole business of him running aruond without diapers and playing
in the potty water. Although the water thing is more of a Doug
thing than a Magnus thing, he will join in.
I am viewing this as a several month long process. Becca,
although she took long enough to get to the process, covered it in
about two days and there have been no accidents.
