So yesterday afternoon we were sitting at the table and Nico starts holding the front of his pants and said, "Pee pee." Nick got up and brought him to the bathroom and sat him on the potty and he wouldn't go and kept wanting to get up. So Nick figured it was just a fluke and went to put his diaper back on. Nico, however, didn't want his diaper back on and kept trying to get back to the potty. Nick at first couldn't figure out what he wanted, and then realized he wanted to go back to the potty and stand. So Nick put him up on a stool (because he's far too short to reach otherwise) and Nico peed on the potty. And then he did it FOUR more times that evening. He would tell us he needed to go and then go.
I had not even THOUGHT of trying to potty train him until we had the language thing worked out, but clearly he had other thoughts... crazy huh?
(And just in case you are wondering, he wasn't potty trained in the orphanage that we know of-- he certainly wasn't when we visited him in March.)
Our challenge is the height issue. He's not at all wanting to sit, but can't reach on his own. However, the stools we have are too tall so he makes a mess... I think we'll be searching for a shorter stool to try to work it out.
