Listening...

Listening isn't easy for any 3 year old (I am hoping) and Porter is no exception. I must ask him to listen to me- or someone else at least 1000x a day. When I was trying to help him with getting potty trained I told him that he just needed to listen to his body and it would tell him when he needed to go. Since then I've heard many derivations of this idea... My body is telling me I'm this.. My body is telling that... This morning he climbed into bed with us and was promptly asked if he needed to go to the bathroom- of course he answered No, and that was it... Sometime later when he was informed that he would need to go to the bathroom before we turned cartoons on- he hesitated, then whispered "My body told me (then in a super low, puckered-lip tummy-ish voice I guess) I need to go potty...I need to go potty."