And so it begins...

Earlier this week, Xander comes up and says this to me, "Mommy, I need my diaper changed." I quickly asked him if he had gone poopy and he replied, "No, I went pee pee and now it is dirty." He looked at me with such a glare of confusion as if to say "Of course I did not poop lady, you would smell it by now. Heck, you would have smelled it ten minutes ago in the hallway and the other side of the house if I would have pooped!" At that moment the thoughts started to go through my mind that my son is probably heading around that corner to be ready to be potty trained.
It all was solidified in my head today at church however. I told the lady in the nursery when we were checking in that Xander may have to go poopy and if he goes off into a corner and tells her not to look or to just go away to page me immediately and I will come change his diaper. I was hoping I gave her the warning signs to tell if he was going to go number two so she could notify me in the church service to come and do something about it before the other children would be knocked out from the overwhelming toxic fumes eminating from my son's hind end. So after we got done singing, I see Xander's number from the nursery pop over the screen. I immediately grab the diaper bag and bee line it to the nursery. Upon arriving at the nursery, the teacher came up to me and told me that Alexander had gone up to one of the other helpers and asked to be changed, so they quickly paged me. When I got to Alexander he greets me with a cheery smile and says "Oh Mommy!!!" I reached for his little hand to take him to change him and it suddenly hits me. No, it is not the smell of poo that suddenly hits me, but the lack of smell. I turn to Xander and ask him if he went poopy and he looks at me (with the same look of "What the heck crazy, are my eyes watering or am I walking like I have a load in the back? Sheesh!!) and says "No, Mommy. I just went pee pee and I need to be clean." And so it was determined, we were going to start potty training.
When Xander got up from his nap this afternoon and was ready for his diaper to be changed, we took it off and told him to try pee on the potty. He went right away, but had to be completely naked in order to go. Since he was already naked, Dan and I decided to leave him that way and start the tedious process of potty training. Dan quickly went to Xander's room and got the Lightening McQueen underwear and asked Xander if he wanted to wear a diaper or McQueen under-roos? Of course Lightening is much cooler than a plain white diaper tooshie!! We then grabbed the timer and every twenty minutes headed to the potty.
Nanny happened to be over this afternoon and was able to witness the beginning to our adventure and told Xander he should do a potty dance or something to let us know he had to go potty. This little suggestion inspired me to break into an impromptu potty dance accompanied by a potty theme song. Think MC Hammer Hammertime but replace the Hammertime with POTTYtime...Duh Duh Duh Duh, Duh Duh, Duh Duh, POTTY TIME!! Xander thought this was so fabulous that we had to dance and sing every twenty minutes to and from the potty. This could be a long few days of potty training, but at least I will get a great workout with the potty dance.
With that, I ask you for well wishes, thoughts and prayers, your fingers crossed and everything else crossed for tomorrow when we are expecting to encounter our first poopy in the potty. We promised the child if he went poopy in the potty that Daddy and I would make him a Mater cake (Mater from the movie Cars) and have a potty party. So, also stay tuned for an invitation to the potty party and come prepared with Hammer pants!!!