Milestones......Hooray

With a few previous attempts with no real commitment, Last week marked the "real" start to my potty training Lars.
Perhaps my previous attempts just got him used to sitting on his potty, but he never actually went potty. Recently I was reading in Baby Whisperer to put him on his potty right when he wakes up and then 20 minutes after he eats . So I bought a book "Pete's Potty" which we read whenever he is in the bathroom and I tried it and Voilla!! He went potty in his little boy potty. A few days later with no other incidents in the potty, he went poo.....I was sooo thrilled. Today he has done both, and we have had a dry diaper all day. It is so motivating to see this progress and to think he might be out of diapers soon.
I'm still giving myself a couple of months to make sure he is good and trained. My goal is when Lars enters Nursery he will be in big boy undies. My mom has had great advice with it as she had us all potty trained between 1 and 1 1/2 year old. She put on a timer so every 45 minutes we were put on the potty. If we didn't go then she put us back on 15-20 minutes later. That way she was catching most of it and apparently we got the idea becaue it worked. She says that a couple of weeks of that and we knew what to do. Obviously night time is a little trickier because you have to wake them up so they learn to know when they are sleeping that they have to go. However, seeing as Lars is still in a crib we will work on the night time training a little later.
Hooray for Lars

Also, while he was going potty this morning he did the sign for ball and dog (they are in his potty book) which he has never done before.
He is funny, his first sign was duck and probably his second word has been Quack or Duck (he says them both even though they sound almost similar). he also does the food signs.....please, more, all done)
His first word was Hi.........and it is his favorite still. He has to say hi and wave to everyone that walks by us, whether at the grocery store, the pool, the park, everywhere. In the grocery store I talk to more people cause he is saying Hi to them. Such a social Kid.