Mason is still mastering the art of staying dry overnight. He drinks a lot and we typically have to change his sheets. Well, he was dry overnight last week, so I made him the promise that if he was dry two nights in a row I would buy him very special monkey underwear. (I saw some cute Paul Frank underwear online.) You would have thought that I promised him a new car. He got so excited about the monkey underwear, but still didn’t quite make it through the night.

Then yesterday morning he woke up dry! He remembered, “if I am dry two nights in a row I get monkey underwear.” I told him, “yup! That’s right, just one more night and you get a seven pack of all different colors of monkeys to wear on your butt.” Very exciting. So, this morning he woke up…dry! He called me at work saying in the cutest little voice, “Mom, I wuz dwy!”

So, to keep my promise, I went online to buy him the monkey underwear. Sold out! We checked inventory to see if any more was coming in, but no. So, I across the street to the store in a panic. They’re sold out! All the stores are sold out! Even the manufacturer is completely sold out! What, is there a run on potty training 3 year olds? I explained to them that my personal reputation is on the line, but no luck. (I did consider the girls briefs that, for some reason, are still in stock. Would he really know? But, no, I decided to wait.)

I bought him a monkey tee-shirt instead, and hope that I can convince him to do it again and he’ll really, really get the monkey underwear this time. He seems to be content with the shirt. We named it his trained-monkey-shirt.