SUCCESS (for the most part)!!!

Tevin is potty trained! :)

After getting to the point of sheer desperation (realizing it was a matter of weeks before preschool started and Tevin was REQUIRED to be potty trained), and after having a serious talk with my dad, I buckled down and got serious about helping Tevin lose the diapers. My dad helped me decide that I needed to commit to it 100%. So the next morning, Tevin and I gathered all of his diapers, put them in a box and taped the box up, and then wrapped the box in pretty gold paper. We wrote, "To: Babies, From: Tevin" on the box. Then Tevin put his own artistic rendering on the paper. We "sent" the box away to the babies because they needed the diapers way more than he did. He enjoyed it very much. At last, I was able to turn in Tevin's enrollment paperwork at the preschool! (Tevin still has accidents from time to time, especially when he is heavily immersed in play. He is also wearing pull-ups at night. We're all VERY proud of him nonetheless!!!)

About 3 weeks later, we got a letter from Tevin's new teacher, Ms. Carol. It was so sweet! The letter was addressed to Tevin and it welcomed him to her Teddy Bear Class for the fall semester starting September 3rd. Tevin even gets to take his favorite stuffed plaything to school on the first day for a Teddy Bear Hunt. He posed with his Pillow Car (the lucky plaything that gets to go to school) and the letter we got from his teacher.

I cried as Darren read the letter out loud, because I couldn't believe my little guy is "big" enough to be going off on his own for a couple of hours to school. I am amazed every single day by Tevin. Sure, preschool is only 2 1/2 hours a day, 3 days a week.... but that's 7 1/2 hours (or 450 minutes, or 27,000 seconds) that I will miss his smile and his unbelievable spirit.