The pressure is on! Pants will be 5 in a few months, enrolling to start "big school" next year and he is still not toilet trained. Not even remotely. Like totally-doesn't-have-a-clue UN toilet trained!
And so he gets a minor lecture about his toileting habits from time to time, usually when I am up to my elbows in excretement and have been looking fondly towards a future time when I have only one child left in nappies. And then I remember ................ that day is far far off!
Pants also has some struggles with speech difficulties. For example, "L" comes out as "W".
He spent a few moments in deep deep thought recently, and approached me with great excitement and the air of one who has discovered a truth of mankind.
"Mum! Mum" he eagerly shouted "I know why you called me Weebi" (his name is Levi)
"Why's that Pants?" I patiently asked
"Because I WEE in my jocks all the time!"
Well, maybe, I guess. Perhaps we had some inkling almost 5 years ago that this tiny little bundle of joy would fail to toilet train in 5 whole years ................ maybe?!
