Adventures in Potty Training, but not really.

Spencer is getting tested for Ohdo Syndrome next Tuesday. It's bitter sweet. I'm excited and nervous. It would be nice to confirm he does have it, but we are living in a state of where ignorance is bliss. They are doing the testing in the lab at Cincinnati Children's. Doctor Hopkin convinced his buddies in the lab to test some new powerful equipment by using Spencer's blood. Otherwise, our only other option was to send it to England and pay out of pocket. While the blood test may confirm that Spencer has Ohdo, it also may come back negative (but mean he still has it) or inconclusive. Either way, it's a start!

Recently I've been thinking a lot about potty training. While I realize Spencer isn't really ready yet, I figured we would give it a shot. I almost have him sitting on the potty. I have decided to switch him to pull-ups, mainly because he's a big boy now. We always told ourselves that we would never treat Spencer any differently because of his disabilities, and if he was a normie he would be wearing pull ups now. Spencer is very excited about the concept of wearing big boy pants:) One mom managed to get her non-verbal non-walking kiddo to become potty trained, so who knows! We're still going to do diapers later in the evening and at night. As soon as we can convince him to sit on the potty, which he did at the store and now he won't (of course), we're going to keep him on a loose schedule. The kid has been on a 3 hour schedule his whole life, so maybe it will work, who knows!