carter uses the potty. he has been for the last 4 days. i cannot get over this. it appears not to be a random "hey, let me sit on this and see what happens" type of thing. if you ask him if he needs to go potty, he goes in there and sits and/or motions to his diaper. often he goes in there, comes back out, points to his diaper, goes in there, comes back out, points to his diaper, and so on until someone notices. if he really needs to go, he just sits down with his diaper on. he thinks it is great, i think it is great, we all think it is great. however, i am so dubious. will it really last? if it does, hooray! he definitely understands all of it though. he can identify that he needs to go, and he can tell us (with gestures), and he can go. he thinks tooting on it is hysterical (it makes a good echo-y sound), and he is pretty interested in the product.

however, he is (i am) still struggling with aim. even when he is sitting.

all in all, pretty unexpected, i'll say.

on another note, we all still have the flu. as in influenza. makes studying so hard. but i finally surrendered to the supreme magic of ibuprofen today. i have been holding out, due to the whole breastfeeding thing, but i could not take it any longer. relief was exquisite.