Pull-Ups for Owen!

Owen has been doing so well with the potty that we decided he's ready for "Pull-Up" diapers. I made the big announcement the night before last: "Owen! You're doing so good going poopie on the potty!!!Do you want to try pull-ups??!!!!" With huge wide eyes (kind of like the ones in this picture!), he said: "Pull-ups?! YES!!!!! YES YES YES!" So, yesterday after daycare I took the boys to the store and we made a big production out of buying pull-up diapers for Owen. Huge deal folks, huge deal. We discovered a brand of pull-ups that have the cars characters from the movie Cars on them! And we discovered a brand of pull-ups that have Bob the Builder on them! We bought both. Owen was beyond excited by all of this. Kyle, on the other hand, in typical Kyle fashion, shows zero interest in going poopie on the potty (peepie is no problem, it is the poopie that he flatly refuses to even attempt on the potty). He shows no signs of potty pooping any time soon ---- even if that means he gets no pull-ups. And if the past couple days are any indication, he's apparently 100% satisfied just wearing the same old Pampers Cruisers he's been wearing since he was 8 months old (just in larger and larger sizes the bigger he gets). We're hoping that once Kyle actually sees Owen wearing the pull-ups, and sees how fun and cool and big-boyish it is to wear the super duper Cars-and-Bob-the-Builder pull-ups that maybe this will provide at least some sort of incentive (since gobs of praise and clapping and singing and jumping up and down and hershey kisses clearly don't pull any sway whatsoever with him). But regardless, the real reason for the pull-ups is Owen. He's all about going on the potty. Loves it. And is so proud of himself. We can't hold him back just because his brother is happy to trail behind in the potty-training-dust. We don't afterall, hold Kyle back in the areas of life where Owen is trailing behind in the dust. So, pull-ups for Owen it is. Owen absolutely loved it last night when Braydon got home and he could show Papi his new packages of pull-ups. "Close your eyes Papi!", he said, and then holding up each package of pull-ups he proudly exclaimed, "O.k., now open your eyes! Look Papi! Pull-ups! Pull-ups for Owen!!!" And before bed last night he carefully chose his first pull-up to wear in the morning to daycare: "Not the Bob the Builder ones," he said, "THE CARS PULL-UPS!!!" So we laid a pair of the Cars pull-ups on the floor in a special spot so they'd be ready in the morning. "Yes, baby," I said, "tomorrow you'll wear the cars pull-ups." And wear them he did. With much enthusiasm and pride he pulled down his pants the minute we arrived to daycare so that he could show everyone his pull-ups: "Look! See my pull-ups???!!!" he shouted! As much as I'm anxious to get them out of diapers, this is yet another milestone on the path away from babydom... and it is bittersweet.