Put away the balloons and banners.  Store the party hats and confetti.  We aren’t ready to celebrate yet.

After doing so well on potty training our precocious and frustration-inducing child has decided that he no longer lives for stickers.  No cars, horsies, or Thomas the Train stickers are beguiling enough to convince him that it is worth paying attention to his bodily functions to attain them.

What happened, you ask?  What could have caused him to suddenly not want to use the potty??

Perhaps he was so shamed by the fact that Avery is ALREADY wearing her little Dora underpants at daycare, that he just threw up his hands and gave up in disgust.  Remember Avery….his little girlfriend who didn’t want to potty until AFTER Kai started??

Perhaps he realized that it was a brilliant way to drive his parents one step closer to insanity, as they say in frustration, “Are you SURE you don’t want to go potty, Kai??”

It is a question that we have been asking ourselves with increasing frequency in the past week.

“Why, dear God??  We were so close to attaining a one-diapered child household! Why, us…cruel universe??????

Perhaps..one day…we will find our answer to this monumental question.  Until then…we wait.  For now, the toddler says…”No, potty.”