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Tomorrow marks the two week anniversary of Emmett's decision to start the potty training process. All-in-all it has been good. Today Emmett and I went to a thing in the park where DJ's were playing and they had a bouncy house (we went for the latter reason), and Emmett was rock solid for the two hours or so we were there. He apparently had an accident today at Andrea's school (pee) when he and Andrea were there, but we never have more than one of these and usually have zero. It has changed from something I am a little paranoid about when we leave the house to something I don't have to think about too much. Emmett has done a great job.

Well, mostly. The one sticking point with all of this has been day care. During the first week of training I didn't even try to have him go without diapers at day care because it was brand new to us and we hadn't thought through the transition. By the Tuesday of the second week, he had been training for about 9 days and I felt pretty good so we went for it. He has not gone to the bathroom without either Andrea or I being there yet and has had a number of accidents there. Luckily we only have one more week of day care and then we don't have to deal with that challenge again until August or September.

During this whole process I have realized why it is a good idea to have a kid wear underwear around the house. If naked, and not being paid too close attention too, Emmett will suddenly announce "poop finger" holding a sometimes unclean up in the air for inspection. Not a fun sight. The underwear at least mostly prevent this unpleasant occurrence.

Emmett continue to gets smarter---thankfully not going the other way. He is putting together longer and longer sentences with more complex thoughts. Much of what he says is understandable---not all, but much. Also, his memory has improved a lot...along with his ability to be sneaky. Anything mentioned just before sleep is the first thing out of his mouth when he wakes in the morning (e.g. we will see Belinda and Nick after nap, then waking and calling for Belinda and Nick). Today at the jumpy house he had been carrying around a bulldozer and wanted more than anything to take it into the house. At first he asked and I would always say no, then he would just try and do it and I would take it away, then he started taking all sorts of circuitous routes and accidentally ending up back at the mouth of the house and trying to go up before I would notice. What made it seem a little more sneaky (and impressive) was that he was able to do this without looking back to see if I was watching or if his trick was working. He's getting craftier.

I don't think there is too much more to report. It seems like all of our time has been spent thinking about potty issues and just recently have been been able to get back to doing normal things without worry.