95% There

Back in March, shortly after we got our new house under contract, I visited our new town with the kids to tour preschools for Austin. We toured one that I really liked, and being my normal, impulsive self, I filled out an application right then in the director's office. The only catch: all of the kids in the 3-year-old class had to be potty trained. Alrighty. No big deal, right? It's March and I have until Labor Day to get this little potty project done. Fast forward 4 months to July, and I'm starting to stress out a little. Austin was still showing no interest in using the potty. He would sit on his Lightning McQueen potty for maybe a second and pop right back up saying "I don't know how". I started asking people if they had a preschool they recommended that would take non-potty trained 3-year-old.

And then, all of a sudden, he got it. We started spending lots of time sitting on the potty reading book after book after book after book. He really liked sitting there reading. And when something actually happened in the potty, he got a prize. Then he just sort of took off from there. It's really only been 2 weeks and I feel like I can say that we're 95% there. I've gotten brave enough to venture out of the house with him wearing underwear instead of a pull-up. And he's so proud of himself. Scott and I are proud of him too. Even Bella. He says "now I can go to school?" Yes, buddy, now you can go to school.