Okay, maybe my two-year-old isn’t exactly the King of the potty. And maybe thousands of other toddlers are completely potty trained by this age. Nevertheless, this is my triumph and my blog and I feel compelled to share my story at the crack of dawn.

Last night as my two boys are getting ready for bed, I had an unexpected breakthrough. My diaper wearing youngest decides that he needs to use the potty without any prompting from me. Here’s what happened. We were in the bathroom brushing teeth when my oldest sat down on his little potty to do his business. His little brother noticed this and ran towards the big potty. So I asked him if he wanted to sit up there, because sometimes he likes to do that, and he said yes. I complied and sat him on the potty with his diaper on and he started tugging at it. I decided to push a little more and asked him if he wanted his diaper off. Much to my surprise, he let out another “Yes”. I don’t hear that word coming out of his mouth very often, so I ran with it and off came Blue’s Clues. Then came the moment of triumph, pee in the toilet where it belongs! Of course, he tried to grab his penis a couple of times, but I have yet to find a boy or man that doesn’t do a little grabbing here or there. After he was done, he grabbed some toilet paper, threw it in the toilet and flushed. (Obviously, I don’t get a lot of alone time in the bathroom, hence the use of the toilet paper.) Then he went back to business as usual and finished brushing his teeth.

Do I allow myself to believe that this little incident could turn into something more? Like possibly a potty-trained toddler? Could this boy actually stay dry when he turns into a preschooler? Alternatively, was all of this a dream and its back to the harsh reality of potty training? The harsh reality that potty training isn’t always easy and sucks most of the time. No, I think that I’ll just relish in the fact that my boy was King of the Potty for at least a moment.