I'm a big boy now

He's not potty trained, but he's quickly becoming a big boy.  We converted his crib into a day bed about a month ago and he's doing great.  At first, he was having a hard time with the whole bed time routine and he cried every night for about two weeks when it was time for bed.  He even started to fight me on bath time for awhile there.  For the past week or so, he's been a complete dream going to bed.  I'll usually try to give him an early bath so that he can get in his pj's and just play or watch a show.  When it's closer to the time I want him to go to his room I'll tell him that he has 10 more minutes to play, or I'll tell him he can finish whatever show he is watching and then it's time for bed.  He'll say 'otay momma' and finish up whatever it is he's doing.  When time is up, I'll ask him what time it is and he'll whisper 'it's nigh, nigh time' and happily grab his blanket and go running to his room; sometimes he even waits for me and will hold my hand all the way down the hall to his room.  He then hops in to bed, I turn on his music, cover him up, read a book if he's in the mood, give him kisses and cuddles and leave.  No fussing or fighting, he just goes to sleep.  Sometimes I'll hear him talking or singing, but usually he falls right to sleep.  He doesn't even get out of his crib in the morning when he wakes up.  He can do it himself, he's just such a good boy that he waits for us to come and get him.  I think he knows that he can't get out of his room anyway so might as well stay in bed.  This is nice because I'm not worried about a jail break in the morning on weekends and can lay in bed a few extra minutes and get my bearings. 

This summer I am determined to start working on potty training.  I need to go out and get some training underwear.  I think I'm going to try to skip the pull ups with him so that he'll get the feeling of being wet and hopefully will not like it.  I also need to come up with a reward system.  I know M&M's will get the best results, but I don't want him to have all that chocolate.  I think a sticker chart will help out, especially if I get Kaitlyn in on it.  He knows what to do, sit on the potty, hold his winky down to keep from getting pee all over the place, he just needs the consistency of doing it all the time.  I don't know if I want to start at the beginning of summer or wait till closer to the time I go back.  We have a lot of stuff going on in July and I don't want his to regress with all the commotion going on.  I guess I could try start next week having him sit at home before bath, bed and in the morning when he gets up and see how he responds.  I don't want to push him, but I also would like to have him trained before going back to school.  I hate to put all that work on the teachers at school.  We'll see how it all goes.