Potty training continues

Nine-week-old Eddie is definitely getting the idea of the potty and gaining control over the relevant muscle groups. It's common for him to wake from a two hour nap with a dry diaper and pee in the potty when we take him there - though if we wait too long after his waking to take him, all bets are off. He can sometimes do this with three hour naps, though the rare four hour stretch is still too long for him. Except for the very occasional missed signal, he rarely poops in his diaper anymore. We're learning his cues for that - suddenly wiggling during a feeding is one, and lifting his legs in the air when he's lying down could be another. He's learning to consolidate his bowel movements, and the tiny poos of his earlier weeks are all but gone, replaced by impressively large operations.

If we miss his other signals, he will fuss and cry to indicate the need for the potty. Unfortunately he fusses and cries for other reasons as well, so it's the least clear of his signals, and often if he's made it to that signal it's because something else is interfering with our ability to take him - we're in the car, or on a walk, or plain not paying attention. So he will then use his diaper, and either be calm afterward or pretty seriously ticked off at us depending on his general mood at the time. The only time he dislikes and protests the use of the potty is in the middle of the night, when he was cozy and warm a minute ago and is now sitting on cold hard plastic. But to be fair, I don't really enjoy that either.