Water and Juice

Owen woke up from his 2+ hour nap today with a totally dry diaper - something that has never happened before.  Although we haven't pushed the potty training that much yet, there is a big difference in where Owen and Oliver are in the process.  Oliver will pretty much go on command when he decides to get onto the potty, while Owen doesn't seem to know what the urge to go feels like or that he is in control.  So I thought this afternoon was the perfect opportunity to try and have him wait it out on the potty and see what it's like to actually pee in the potty.  I started out with just him in the bathroom, drinking some water from a cup.  Then the other two joined and we had a water drinking party in the upstairs bathroom.  I soon realized that we needed more time and that Oliver and Spencer weren't going to last in the confines of the bathroom any longer, so we moved downstairs to the little blue potty.  I gave Owen more and more to drink (juice this time) while running in and out of the bathroom to prepare a snack and diffuse battles between Oliver and Spencer.  They were getting really antsy with not having my full attention and wreaking havoc in the kitchen.  They knocked down a baby gate that we had setup not to be opened or moved, pulled tissues out of the box on the table, and somehow got into the jar of animal crackers in the pantry...all in a matter of minutes.  Meanwhile, Owen was patiently reading books, playing with his toys on the potty, and talking about how he was going to get 2 M&Ms.  This impressive attempt had been going on over an hour by now.  I knew that it was time to go outside...but had invested so much time and effort to this point - where was the pee pee?!?  I'm not really sure how I thought this next move would ideally unfold, but I took Owen and the potty into the kitchen to start getting everyone ready for outside.  Maybe I imagined he would sit back down and go right there, or maybe we'd bring it outside with us and try on the front porch.  But none of that happened.  I turned my back to grab something off the counter, then looked back to see him proudly going right on the kitchen floor - just inches away from the potty, which was in fact getting pee all over it as well (in the wrong places).  Even more mess.  Not to mention Spencer and Oliver wanting to splash in the newly created "puddle".  And the kicker of this backfired plan is that I still had to give him his M&Ms and praise him for the effort.  I'm really hoping this incident helped him to "get it" a little bit and that we have better luck next time!