It's Potty Time! It's Potty Time!

Tom running free in his new underpants!



Joe proudly pulling up his new underpants!


Tom and Joe are for the most part POTTY TRAINED!!!! I never thought the day would come! Life is sooooo much easier now! Underwear by day and pull-up by night! M & M peanuts for tinkles and a starbursts for POOP! It is a family affair when one of them POOPS! We all have to go and look at it (even Peter). Peter then flushes the toilet while waving and saying, ""bye bye poop!"

I must go back a ways and explain how this day has finally come. Tom and Joe are infatuated with the garbage truck and recycling truck that come by EVERY Tuesday. Infatuated. INFATUATED! Every Monday evening, they help Brian gather all the trash in the house along with the recycling and then place it out on the curb for the next morning.

It had got to a point where we had tried EVERYTHING to get them to go POOPS on the potty, EXCEPT for calling the garbage man! Brian came home from work one Tuesday and told Tom and Joe that he had received a phone call from the garbage man at work today. The garbage man told Daddy that he was disgusted with having to drive around all day with Tom and Joe's poopie diapers stinking up his garbage truck. "Tom and Joe need to start going poops on the potty!" the garbage man adamantly reviled to Daddy.

The boys pondered on this incident and within a day or two I received a phone call at work from Joe stating he had gone POOPS on the potty! Then Tom got on the phone to tell me he had gone on the potty too! I just about dropped the phone! HURRAH!! Oh who would be so excited for someone to go on the toilet??!! ME.

Thank you garbage man and thank you Daddy for coming up with the clever idea!