Thanks Shannon!

Grandma rewarded him with $1

Our potty training days have come and are going great and I owe it all to miss Shannon who encouraged Benson to "pee on bees" .

We were anticipating a fast and early training last year when Benson began going potty on the little singing toilet we got for him just months before. After a couple weeks things were going well and high hopes were arising, however our annual trip to Oregon was approaching and the comfort of our home and stresses of travel took it's place and happen to land us back into diapers. Needless to say, another year of diapers for us.

As summer approached this year our hopes were high again! Benson runs around naked and usually ends up peeing on whatever he's around. No interest still.....until the encouragement of Shannon - THANK YOU - he talked about peeing on the bees but that was about it until the 4th of July, 2008, next day. He was running around, jumping all over the place and you knew what was going on. He had to pee and we were around tons of people at a party and Benson had no diaper on. His several tries turned into a success just minutes later when he found himself sitting on a toilet and an audience of one, cheering him on.

Days go on and things are still going strong. He's doing so well and loves to wear underwear. The underwear that was purchased last year is now too small and he calls them the "baby" underwear. Now he has "bigger" boy underwear which his struts around in.

Yay for Benson!