On the Potty Train

Sam is potty-training. Rocky, in Will's fourth grade class last year, gave Sam a little hot wheels car that looks like a toilet on wheels. Sam had been hearing us talk about potty-training him, and when he got the toilet car, he immediately called it "The Potty Train". Every morning when I take off his night time diaper I say, "OK, it's time to get on the Potty Train." I like the allusion to something that can get derailed, or that you can fall off of. It fits with the actuality of potty training.