in a word-trained

The other day Aiden decided that he was ready to be a big boy, and he now exclusively uses the toilet. He has been wearing big boy undies every day since Monday, and hasn't had an accident (Except for two of the past five mornings the diaper that we put on him while he's sleeping was wet-I am not ready for a bed wetter) yet. I am waiting for a big relapse, because I hear it happens. But for now, I'm just going to say it. He's SO potty trained. This child just loves to learn, and try new things. Now, I know that he's not the first or second or third kid to be potty trained at two, but man, he just really took to it fast, and way before we expected.

When he is done he insists on pulling up his undies "all by myself" and his little bum is left hanging out every time. It's so stinking cute. Sometimes I leave him to wander around like that for a while before I pull up his pants the rest of the way for him.

This is his sticker board. For every time he pees or poos in the potty, he gets a sticker. For the first month or two that we had the potty there was one sticker up there, then eventually two and now he's got a whole collection. That sticker board is one of his very favorite things in our whole house. Every time he gets a new sticker he counts them which doesn't ever come out right because he counts them randomly and he can only count to 16 before starting over. He usually just counts to six and then he's done and he tells me there are six. I think he'll be a mathematician when he grows up.

To Aiden, the best thing is that he is a big boy now, and that is almost be incentive enough for using the potty without the stickers. I can't believe how big he has gotten, and how smart he is. He knows the alphabet all the way through, with the exception of L and N. For some reason, they never make it into Aiden's alphabet. He can recognize almost all of the letters too, by sight. He knows B, C, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y and Z. His very favorite letter is W followed closely by M of course, because it looks just like W. Who has a favorite letter?

He loves to sing, and is actually pretty good and can almost hold a tune. He's got a list of his favorite songs that he has memorized and sings to me whenever I want.

When we drive down the street he knows all of the places we are passing, and he can usually figure out where we are heading. His favorite store is Target, because of the wall of Vacuums. We almost never go to Wal-Mart, but he knows right where it is, and that it is followed by Home Depot, and Petco. He remembers where we went to vote, where we went bowling once in Moab, and can tell us turn by turn how to get to Gramma's house.

I am beyond proud of the little boy he has grown into, and I am wishing he would stop for just a little while so I can catch up to him. He is the love of our lives, we are so lucky to have him.