I Guess We're Doing This?

Apparently, at daycare, Eddie will tell Cassie when he needs to pee, and then he'll gladly sit on the potty and pee.  At home, of course, he screams at me when I take off his diaper and suggest that he run around naked.  He loves being naked, usually, so this is odd.

Yesterday, when Cassie told me about his daytime pottying, I felt this urge to just go for it--to try potty training him.  But then I thought I'd give myself at little more time.  Really, other than effort (cleaning, reminding him to use the potty, etc.) my biggest fear/hang-up with potty training him is that I'll do it wrong.  That I'll somehow damage him. All parents have heard those horror stories of potty training gone wrong, where parents instill a sense of fear into their kids, sometimes causing a child to have "poop anxiety" and refuse to poop at all.  Sigh.  Hopefully I'm gentle, loving, and patient enough that I would never actually instill fear of any kind into any of my children, but this is a real worry of mine.

Last night he went around naked after we got home from a "new" park adventure.  And he didn't pee at all.  I put him into his fancy new Thomas underpants but he took them off at some point and I found them on the kitchen counter this morning.  Ewwwwwwwww, such a BOY thing to do.  He also woke up with a dry diaper (total coincidence and the first time that's ever happened).

This morning I made him go diaper-free (he was NOT pleased).  He was helping me make smoothies when he started to pee a little onto the stool he was sitting on.  I told him he should have told me he needed to pee so we could go into the bathroom first.  He said, "Oh, need to pee Mama!"  So off we went to the bathroom.  I ask him which potty he wanted to use (big toilet or his little potty chair) and he danced around while he decided.  Yes, he did the peepee dance!

He settled onto the little potty and peed for eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever.  Yay!  And he didn't ask for an M & M treat, so I didn't offer him one.  I'm hoping to only reward with his beloved "chaw-chit" candies when he poops in the potty.  And although he has no idea what I'm talking about, I promised him we could go to Disneyland once he is accident-free for a whole month straight.  (We're going to take him anyway, but this gives me and Dave reason to actually pack up and go...to the magical kingdom, that is, not to go potty...we're already trained, you know.)

We had breakfast at the central park this morning (muffins and smoothies) and he got his diaper and shorts soaked from going down the wet slide.  So when I dropped him off at Cassie's house I removed his shorts and diaper since they were wet with rain water.  Cassie gave him the foam toilet seat insert to take home with us tonight...he was so happy!  He even took it into the art room to show all of his friends.  Haha.

So...what about at night?  Should I put him in diapers?  Or should I buy pull-ups so he knows they are different than diapers?  Help??