you know your baby is a big boy when....

his teacher hands you a plastic bag FULL of DIAPERS and says " you can take these home for Caroline, in my book Trey is completely potty trained". I stood at the classroom door with a nap mat, backpack, lunchbox, and this sack of diapers and literally teared up. When did he become this little boy? I mean, once you can learn to control your own bodily functions you kinda leave "babyland"....i'm sure we will have our accidents and he still sleeps in pull ups but this is a milestone i can, bittersweetly, cross off my list. Honestly, our potty training just "evolved"  rather than using a method. And i chalk it up to "the pack"...Trey was noticing that his friends in class were all using the potty, wearing pull ups etc. so he mentioned he wanted pull ups. This was probably in Jan. 2012. So i said ok, not making a big deal of it. Then he quickly realized that he could pee in his pull up just like a dipaer so that didn't really work.  Then about the beginning of Feb. " Jack B." his buddy went to school wearing "big boy underwear" and Trey came home refusing to wear anything but underwear, honestly, its the first time that i saw his self esteem sink a tad bit, "please mama, i want to be like jack, i'm a big boy" Lightening McQueen underwear, on backwards to be exact ( i wasn't picky either, if it doesn't bother him why should it bother me. of course, when he's ready to stand and pee this will present itself to be problematic but i'll let him figure that out :)) So it probably took about 3-4 days and then BAM...that was it. He was so proud of himself, while i just absorbed it all thinking " you + me baby, have come so far together". If i react this way to potty training i don't even want to think about the tear fest i will have at all his graduations, first dances, girl-crushes, going off to college, his wedding. Maybe i should buy stock in water proof mascara now???