Chapter Twenty-Four: A Big Boy
"Guess who's going to be three years old tomorrow?" Severus questioned while pouring a cup of water over the top of his son's head.
"Me!" Harry exclaimed excitedly with a rather wide grin as he touched his chest with both of his hands.
"That's right and that means that you won't be a toddler anymore you'll be a preschooler instead." Severus began while grinning back at him. "And that means that you're going to go to nursery school to learn your ABC's and learn how to count. You'll also probably learn about rhyming." He told him.
"What's a wime?" Harry wondered while Severus lathered his hands with soap and started scrubbing his head and Harry automatically knew to close his eyes.
"It's two words that sound alike but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Like me and three. One of them is talking about yourself, and the other one is talking about a number." He explained. "You know Harry once you get to nursery school a lot of the other boys and girls will already be potty trained. "Don't you want to learn how to use the potty like a big boy?" He questioned him.
"No. It's weely scawee." Harry replied while his father poured water over the top of his head to rinse it.
"I know it's sort of loud and different, but you'll get used to it. One day when you're fully potty trained I'll even let you pick out your very own pair of underwear." Severus told him before he started scrubbing his body. Once he had finished, he let Harry play in the bathtub for a few minutes before draining the water and gently lifting him out of the tub and started drying him off. Then he took him back to his bedroom to put a fresh diaper and got him dressed into his pajamas.
"So Harry, what story do you want me to read tonight?" Severus questioned him once the little boy was snug and safe inside his bed.
"Stormy the Seadwagon." Harry replied.
"That one again? Don't you want to hear the story of the three brothers or something?" Severus questioned him but Harry just simply shook his head.
"No." He replied.
"Alright, but once it's over then it's time for bed because you have a big day at the zoo tomorrow." Severus reminded him while he sat down next to Harry who cuddled up inside his chest. He smiled warmly down at him and put his arm around before kissing his head softly and summoning the book over to him with his wand.
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The next morning Severus noticed that Stevie was awfully quiet at the table and barely touched her breakfast. Sarah on the other hand was eating voluntarily for once since she was eating a chocolate doughnut while her mother helped her big brother cut up his chocolate chip pancakes for him. "Is everything alright Stevie?" Severus questioned her out of concern.
"Yeah, I just don't understand why I have to go to a party with a bunch of people who still watch Barney and are still in diapers." She told him.
"Because they're close to being your cousins." Severus began. "Besides, what would you rather be doing instead?" He wondered.
"Pwabobbly pwaying with Chase." Harry replied as his mother finally helped him finish cutting up his pancake and he stuck his piece of pancake inside his mouth and started chewing it with his mouth wide open.
"Harry close your mouth that's bad manners." Lily told him and Harry obeyed.
"You know you've been spending way too much time with that boy." Severus began. "What if he finds out you're a witch?" He wondered but she just simply shrugged at him.
"I don't think that he'll care." She told him while taking out her cellphone and starting to text as Severus rolled his eyes.
"You and Chase can get together some other time. As of right now it's Harry's and Sarah's big day." He reminded her.
"That's right, not only is Harry three today,.. but Sally you're this number today." Lily told her while extending her index finger making Sarah grin.
"I gotta pee-pee." Harry said.
"Oh really? Do you want to try and be a big boy and go pee-pee on the potty if Mummy will come with you?" Lily questioned him as Harry took a sip of pumpkin juice and nodded before setting it down again. "Well come on then let's go potty." She told him while unstrapping him from his booster seat and carrying him down the hallway and into the bathroom as quickly as possible.
She unslid his pants and undid his diaper before setting him down on his toilet seat. A few seconds later Harry was taking his first pee inside the toilet. "Great job Harry! What a big boy you are!" Lily squealed excitedly with a rather large grin as Harry grinned back at her.
"Imma big boy now." He told her proudly.
"That's right you are a big boy. Mummy will wipe you now and after we finish watching your hands we'll go ahead and put some training pants on you before it's time to go out." She told him before grabbing some toilet paper to wipe his toosh and then flushed it down. "Great job Harry, I think you deserve a sticker for going potty for the very first time today like the big boy that you are." She told him as Harry climbed up onto the stool and she helped him wash his hands.
After Harry was dressed and had his training pants on he quickly hurried back over to the table excitedly. "Guess what!? Guess what!?" He cried as Severus chuckled.
"Did you go pee in the potty by any chance?" He questioned him.
"Yes I did and Mummy put me in twaining pants and gave me a dwagon sticker." He replied.
"Well congratulations Harry, you're one step closer to a diaper free world." Severus told him as he sat back down at the table while Lily wiped off Sarah's mouth as soon as she was eating her doughnut and drinking her juice.
"Well I guess I better start cleaning her up before I get her dressed for the day." Lily said while picking her up out of her highchair and carrying her into the kitchen.
