Javier Ignacio O’Malley Gorbea gladly began the journey to toilet self sufficiency this past week. Javier, third born of four, has awakened each morning for the past few mornings wishing to go "pee pee" and "caca" in the toilet.

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"Daddy, Mommy go pee pee in da toilet?"

"Yes, Javier, Mommy goes pee pee in the toilet."

Javier smiled, tickled by this little piece of secret trivia. "Mommy goes caca in da toilet," he declared, extrapolating upon known data, quite a valid hypothesis, if you ask me.

"Yes, Javier, Mommy goes caca in the toilet too." We both chuckled at our scatological observation.  "Daddy goes caca and pee pee in the toilet too. Olaia, Jaimito… everybody, all the big people go in the toilet. Asier is a little boy, so he doesn’t go in the toilet."

Javier smiled, happy to be included among the big self sufficient pee pee and caca goers. "I go pee pee caca in da toilet!"