Dog days of summer?

So Mark and I decided that it was time that Kian got out of diapers last weekend. Kian, Julean and I went off to Walmart and Kian got to pick out his big-boy underwear - Tigger. Great! He gave us a bit of a hard time putting them on the first time but after making a few deals he has been wearing them everyday without too much trouble.

Saturday afternoon the boys had a birthday party to go to and Kian went off for the first time in his big-boy underwear. We had a couple accidents which was alright. One at the party and the other in the shopping cart at the grocery store.... Sunday we put our big-boy underwear back on and headed off to the the Bobby-Bob store (that's Home Depot to all who don't speak "Kian"). After playing on the tractors for a while we decided to visit Auntie Nay. We had an accident there so the underwear and shorts came off and he was running around naked. After the accident, Mia (the dog) decided to lock everyone out of the house. While she was doing that Kian came running up to me to tell me that he had gone poop in the yard. Great.... Now I have to find the kid poop between the dog poop. We did find it and we were going to flush it when Renee finally managed to get into the house and Mia came bolting out. Unfortunately Mia saw the poop before anyone else could catch her and did what all dogs love to do - ate it. Lovely....

Monday was accident free, so to speak. Kian didn't pee in his underwear, but only pees and poops outside.... Great, now I have my very own dog to pick up afterward in the yard.... He is very consistent that when he has to go he goes bolting outside from whatever he is doing. Unfortunately I don't think that is going to be socially acceptable once we get out of our own yard. I'm a bit concerned that when we go to Seattle this coming weekend that we are going to have to explain somethings to people, maybe at the zoo.

So far we have been accident free for three days and I'm enjoying not having to change any poopy diapers other than Julean's - who at the moment is eating 3 CUPS of blueberries a DAY! You always swear that when you have kids you aren't going to talk about poop!