Potty training um notes.

This is really just a personal note for me, to mark down Aiden's future history.
We stared potty training full on yesterday, instead of using his potty once in a blue moon. I moved the furniture around to take out his own upholstered chair, shoved the couch (which i covered with blankets) up against the radiator so he couldn't hide behind it, and used the large baby gate to block him off from the computers, table, his dining chair and rocking chair. Then.. I took his pants, nappy.. all! half naked boy all day.. if you want to "go" you got 2 options the floor or your potty chair. He went in his potty 12 times yesterday!! 12! he had 2 pee accidents in which he realized he was going, shot up and finished on his potty! and he did pinch one off on the floor while i was upstairs, but i did notice he tried on his potty but wasn't positioned right so gave it up as a bad job and finished on the floor! What i am doing since stickers, candy, and outright trying to make him go doesn't work for him... i am wrapping up his hotwheels that have been upstairs for months, since we rotate his toys, and giving them back to him as a present every time he uses the potty. We have bought some cheap generic ones as well to wrap up. He will get a present every time he goes this week, then next week he can have one at the end of the day if he uses the potty all day. and then eventually will phase it to end of the week, which at 20-50p a car really isn't costing me much since I'm saving 32p a nappy :)
I'm so proud of aiden, he is really doing fantastic! today we are trying underpants instead of bare butt, and he has managed to take them off all on his own, if not a bit clumsily, but he has got them off in time today so far 4 times... exactly how much does my son wee? seriously! hahahaha

We were reading "Happy Worm" today, and when it comes to the part of the book where the Princess Kisses the Frog.. well this is how it goes:
(me reading) Before the Kiss...
aiden.. jumps up in my lap and plants a big one on me, with full Muuuuuaaaaah! sounds.
aiden: i want to kiss your cheek!, Muuuuuuaaaah!
and the other one.. Muuuuuuaaaah!
I want to kiss your nose! Muuuuaaah
Kiss your hair! Muuuuaaah!
And kiss your ear! Muuuuaaah
and the other ear! Muuuuah
me: Ahh I love you Aiden You're Gorgeous!
aiden: I want to Kiss Your Happy!..
and he kisses my huge smile :)

while watching 'Bolt' before bed time.. aiden decided i was no longer mommy, but i was 'Mittens' from the movie..
'mittens!'
im not mittens i am mommy
'no you are mittens'.. mittens! mittens! mittens....' he kept saying mittens over and over with a huge grin on his face.. he would grab my chin and steer it towards his face and exclaim... 'Mittens!'
i am mommy not mittens.. he grabs my chin with one finger, and whispers 'pssst mommy' i turn and look at him...
'you are mittens!' ... i give in.. ok then you better watch out or my claws will get you!

this obviously reminds him of "Where the Wild Things Are"

and he goes on a rant intertwining Bolt, and the book

'And They Roar their terrible roars.. Raaawr! and they gnashed their terrible eyes, and they gnashed their terrible teeth, and they gnashed their terrible claws!'

he has taken certain liberties on how the book actually goes, but it is hilarious.. he goes on like this for quite a few minutes, ....intermittently calling me mittens..