Pooballs and Peesnakes

I usually prefer these entries to be heavy on pictures and light on words. I have to make an exception on this one. Dixon is officially potty trained. Yeah-didn't think you needed to see pics of that. Anyway, it all began when Dixon started running around naked and bringing me diapers when he needed to go potty. I ran out and checked out about a dozen books on potty training (Typical me, right?) I breezed through them and came to the conclusion that Dixon was not ready. Quite frankly, I didn't think I was ready for the horrors I'd read about. Then a magical thing happened. On a whim, I put Dixon on the potty instead of putting on his diaper when he brought it to me. 3 days later, the kid is house broken. Who knew????? The funny thing is I made it so much more complicated than it needed to be. I made him a cute sticker chart but he only wanted to stick the stickers on Dash and call them "owies." Then I tried giving him an M&M when he used the potty. Wasn't long after that that Buzz Lightyear, a stuffed cat, a few cars, and other random toys suddenly needed to go potty. Of course they each needed a candy reward. How could I say no to that? In the end Dixon didn't need any motivation. He only had 4 accidents. All of them were en route to the potty. So easy clean up. I think what really inspired him was the first time he pooped in the potty. He turned to look at it and his eyes lit up as he yelled out "poopsuhss!" (That's how he says snake.) After that he was so excited to see if his poo would be a poopsnake or pooballs or even a poonana. And you can imagine his delight when he noticed his urine stream was a peesnake. Gotta love this kid!!!
p.s. There is nothing in this world as cute as Dixon in his little underwear.