underwear!

Our lovely and sainted head teacher at daycare, Amanda, suggested that we should try to put Sebastian in underwear starting a couple of weeks ago. Not because he's potty trained. No. But he doesn't seem to be aware when he pees, and despite weeks of sitting on the potty every day, has only once managed to produce anything. So Amanda indicated her willingness to change him out of his wet shorts and underwear multiple times a day in an attempt to move things along. (Like I said, sainted.)

After nearly three weeks of this experiment, both at daycare and at home, we have had mixed results. At daycare, he tries to go every day, but his aim is atrocious (there's apparently a failure to tuck a certain part down) and he ends up spraying his pants, shoes, and the entire bathroom. At home, there has been lots of sitting in the bathroom keeping him company on the potty, but very little result. But he rarely has accidents at daycare - apparently he's very good at holding it until naptime or pickup - and he at least recognizes and will now tell us when he is peeing. He seems to find it more acceptable to have accidents when it's just me, especially when we're playing outside, so I've been carrying around a lot of extra clothes.

He did manage, on one banner occasion, to poop at home in the potty. We really hoped it was a sign of progress, but it wasn't. *sigh* It seems like it'll be a while before he figures this out.