Our son has attended and excelled (it's always a competition, right?) at three days of daycare, and he has started his fourth day today. Everyday I pick him up they give you his bottles, any soiled laundry, and a written report of when he peed, pooped, ate, slept, anything we need to bring for the next day, the number of attempts he made to escape daycare, and how many people he has recruited for his gang. (Apparently he has charmed one of the pre-schoolers into being his "muscle.") Yesterday I noticed again that he had not pooped at daycare, and shortly after I pick him up and we go home he has no problem dropping a load into his diaper for us to take care of. I get it. Everyone poops. However, I would appreciate the amount of money we are spending on daycare even more if he would poop AT DAYCARE. So, yesterday, in front of his teachers, I gave him the daily goal of pooping at daycare. I told him that it was okay to do, that we pay them to care for him and wipe his butt, and that he shouldn't be afraid to poop at daycare just because his other mother is afraid to poop at work. Sawyer rejected that goal at first, but then I bribed him with $1 per daycare poop.
Sawyer: "But I don't want to poop at daycare!"
Me: "I will pay you $1 for every poop you make at daycare."
Sawyer: "Deal."
I must say, he is quite the expressive child.