Undies

It was just an ordinary Monday, until Porter decided that today was the day to not be a baby any more.

 

So, what do you get when you add:

 

One little boy deciding he is done wearing diapers.

Plus

One caught off-guard mom, who has no little boy undies, and can only find Scout's princess panties from 3 years ago?

It equals:

One awesome blackmail shot that will be filed away and will brought out at an appropriate time, to be determined later:

Boo-yah!

When I look at this picture, I see:

One happy, proud, and totally oblivious little boy!
One mom who isn't sure if it is okay to put this picture on the blog, but is doing it anyway because it may be the best moment ever captured.
One sister who has a serious fit of the giggles, seeing her little brother wearing Belle panties.
One beginning to the loooong road of potty training a little boy.

This picture was sent to Ammon at work, in which I immediately got a reply text of:
"I'm stopping to buy underwear on the way home. Those panties were never intended for a bulge!"

That is why little boys have fathers.  To save them from their too practical moms, who don't see anything wrong with throwing a pair of princess panties on their manhood to save themselves having to make a trip to walmart in the middle of the day.

After two weeks of this boy in undies, a laundry basket full of 'accident undies,' a whole used  bottle of carpet cleaner, and a whole Costco dispenser of Clorox wipes used for wiping the toilet later. . .
I've decided this:
1.Boys (At least this boy) are so much harder than girls
2. Seeing little streams of pee actually make it into the toilet is so exciting for a mom!
3. Having a child in diapers is so so so much easier than potty training
4. Everyone getting 'potty treats' every time they go 'potty' isn't a bad tradition, and we may just keep it around even after potty training is done.
5. This little boy is highly motivated by candy.  I am convinced he saves his pee, just so he can get multiple 'potty treats' within 30 minutes.
6.  I thought little girl undies were the cutest thing, but little boy's are pretty adorable too.
7. Boys are gross.  We had Scout trained not to touch anything in public bathrooms.  She still walks into a bathroom, and immediately says, 'Don't touch ANYTHING, right?' 
Porter on the other hand, has to completely strip down to his birthday suit, touches everything, and I mean everything, and has practically licked the toilet seat by the time we leave.  So gross. I feel like I cannot possibly carry the amount of hand sanitizer necessary to keep this child germ free.
8.Between switching to a big boy bed, and out of diapers, Porter is not a baby anymore (which he will tell you again and again), and this mom is not sure how she feels about it. Why why why do they grow so fast!?!
9. We are far from being officially 'potty trained,' but I am so proud of this little man.

Sorry for the potty training post. 

This is a good part of our live right now, and I figured I my as well post about it, so when I am surrounded by my moody teenage kids, I can look back and reminisce on the days when my problems consisted of pee soaked bathroom floors, germ infested public bathrooms, and princess panties.