Outsmarted ...

By a toddler. Ben totally has the hang of this potty business (for peeing, anyway). He is not using the potty all the time, just will ask for it randomly -- but has figured out a few tricks. First, to avoid going to bed at night, he should tell us he needs the potty. This will allow him to sit on the potty and avoid a diaper and bed for as long as possible -- or for a few minutes, at least. Second, if he uses the "froggy potty," he gets to "dump and flush" the contents. How fun! But -- if he uses all the pee up in one sitting, that's only one dump and one flush. Instead, he's realized that going just a few drops, demanding applause, dumping and flushing allows the process to be much longer -- and more importantly, allows for more flushing. Oh boy ...

** Ben's cottage cheese goatee **