We have been slowly introducing our 20-month-old to the potty over the last few months. He was intrigued by the little one we got him and loved to sit on it and pretend to go potty. After a few tries, he was done with it. He wanted no part of the little potty when it came time to actually go to the bathroom.

So, Daddy started showing him how to go potty like a big boy. He knows to push a stool over to it, lift the lid and try to go. Now, every time we take his diaper off and ask him if he wants to go potty, he runs to the big potty.

Grant it, sometimes it's just to stand there and marvel at the fact that he is standing on a stool without a diaper on, but he has actually used the big potty a few times now. We praise him, do a happy dance and clap most uncontrollably to show him how proud we are of him.

It's sometimes funny to see him go to the bathroom, use the potty and start to get down off the stool. I'll ask him if he's done and he would say "no" and turn right back around and go again!

I am fearful that I am setting myself up for disaster though, because he skipped the little potty altogether. Or, am I just over-thinking it?

Whenever we ask him if he needs to go potty, he has replied several times with "no." So, I think he may be getting the hang of it. If he says "no," then there is no way I am taking him in there to try. That would just make him mad, which may undo all that he has already learned.

He also has learned to close the lid — slams it down is more like it — and then wash his hands. He loves to wash his hands and giggles at all the bubbles we make. Which could be an added bonus to him going to the bathroom. Making the entire routine fun is sure to get him to go more often. Now, if I can just get him to set the lid down softly, we will be on the right track to our little boy growing up into a big boy.