YEAH!!!! Poo Poo!!!!!

Today was the day! Ryan in 23 months old and we started potty training him at about 22 months. We started with the small steps of leaving him without a diaper for an hour or so and taking him to the potty every 15 mins. That seemed to be going smoothly so we progressed on to the days spent at home without a diaper. It's a slow process but it seems to work. We just recently the last 2 or 3 have been taking him out in public without a diaper. Making MANY bathroom trips. All these things have been working fine with pee but poop is a whole other story. Ryan looses it if he has to poop. Crying, yelling and completely refusing to go. Don't get me wrong, he has pooped in the potty but it is an ordeal that has taken anywhere from 30-45 mins. to convince him it's a good thing. Today was the day he did it on his own. It started with the typical poop cry and the 3 trips to the big potty where he cried and then got down. I decided today that I would pull out the training potty and let him try when he felt comfortable. I sat it in the living room with the Imagination Movers on and that's all it took(typical guy)! Ryan sat on the potty and with Lexi as his coach managed to make his first poop on his own without freaking out! He jumped up, looked in the potty and got a huge smile when he saw that baby! Lexi and Ryan both started yelling and I was cheering as well!! What a big boy!!!