Let the Games Begin...

...or is it, let's get ready to rumble? We are getting ready to enter the world of potty training. I am excited and scared to death. This is all set to start this coming Saturday morning where we will spend our weekend on lock down. I bought the roast and the fixin's for the crock-pot yesterday, so we should have the food we need during the crazy experience. I have been prepping for about a month with a couple of books, a video and CONSTANT talk about diapers, pee, poop, flushing, toilets, potty, etc., etc...if there is a topic that has to do with going potty we've addressed it. I never thought I would be carrying poop in a diaper to a toilet with Blake along side, dumping it in and flushing, then waving saying "bye bye poop," then clapping! So, the pictures above are Blake opening his potty present - an Elmo seat. I am all into going potty on the real thing as long as you don't fall in...I am NOT cleaning a potty chair and I can't carry it around with me (or at least I refuse to). He was very excited and even carried it into the bathroom to put it on the toilet. We have all of our ammunition ready in each bathroom - poster that is for the reward stickers, books, M&M's, goldfish and other yummies. The unfortunate thing is I know that even with all of this wonderful planning and the fact that Blake has all of the readiness signs, it all will likely slap me in the face and we'll by flying by the seat of our pants (sorry for the pun!). I just hope we are ALL smiling come Monday morning!