potty learning

Caelan is finally showing signs of potty readiness, so we've delved into the world of potty learning. He'd peed in the potty a few random times over the past few months, but suddenly he started saying "I feel like I could pee!" almost every time we took his diaper off to change it. Most times, he'd sit on the potty and actually pee. So we are now letting him go either completely bottomless or in just undies when we're home and have time to remind him to sit on the potty (and clean up the inevitable accidents). Last night, he both peed and even POOPED on his potty. Today so far, he peed once on the potty in the morning, then pooped in his James the Red Engine underpants later in the day because he was so engrossed in playing, then peed in the potty one more time before his nap. I was extra impressed with that last pee, because I had actually already changed him into his nap time diaper because I needed to get Avery to sleep and didn't want to worry about helping him with the potty/cleaning up an accident while nursing Aves to sleep. I put the diaper on Caelan and set him up with a show and a snack in our office. About 45 minutes later, after drinking a ton, I asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty before his nap. He said yes, so I took off his diaper and it was actually dry. He then peed on the potty like a champion! I know this will be a process and we'll have setbacks, but I'm very proud of his progress so far. I'm also glad we didn't push him earlier, because I can already tell this will be easier because he's self-motivated. A few proud pictures from last night... his first time in big boy underwear, excited because he'd just peed and pooped on the potty!