For the past week or so, I’ve been working on toilet training Captain Jelly Belly. It has been going really well but I’ve been very low pressure about it — once a day, at 9:30am, we sit on the potty with some potato chips as a lure, then I tell him stories until he pees, then he gets a candy.

Today I was having trouble with Gal Smiley so we missed our usual potty time, and by the time I got around to it, he’d already peed in his diaper. So we still sat on the potty and had chips, but he didn’t actually pee, so he didn’t get a candy. Then, it was like a huge light bulb went off in his head — pee = candy. After that, every time I turned around he insisted on sitting on the potty. He peed in it four times between 11am and 11:30am — overall today he peed in the potty seven times, plus three other times he tried and couldn’t quite produce. The kid must have a bladder the size of a basketball. No wonder he’s a Jelly Belly.

Needless to say, the potty training is going very well. But on the downside, seven candies = one hyper Captain.