DS suddenly interested in potty, now what do I do?

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Ok I have 27 month DS and a 10 week old. I had planned to leave potty training until the spring but we have had the potty lying round the house and a toilet training seat for quite awhile.

All of a sudden DS is interested, told me he wanted a wee yesterday and weed on the toilet last night, he has just asked to use the potty this morning and had another wee, but then had a dirty nappy straight away after lunch.

This makes me think it is probably sensible to start potty training now and not put it off til spring. It would also be great as two in nappies is sooooo expensive! But what do I do - just leave the nappy off and buy chocolate buttons for poos? Are pull ups important or do they just delay things?we have a lovely rug in front room should I pull it up whilst we are in the training stage?

He is also not dry overnight yet, is that important?

Just taken by surprise and don't really know what I'm doing!

Just go with it - forget pull-ups and take him to choose some big boy pants (big in size as well as easier to pull up and down), take up the rug for a while, have several potties about if possible and leave him bare-bummed to start with if he's not too cold.
Talk about it a lot and when he says he needs a wee he will need one NOW to start with, especially when out

Good luck, I hope it's a breeze.
And don't worry about night-time. My DS was completely dry in the day from the time he decided he was going to be (about 2.6mths I think) but at 8.1 is still not properly dry at night

I would go for it now. My DD had a skin graft taken from the inside of her thigh at that age Hospital advised leaving potty training for 6 weeks so the wound had a chance to heal. She was having none of it and one day just said i want to use the toilet and she was off. She had very few accidents. It was over christmas as well as she had her operation on boxing day.
Being dry overnight is very different to being dry during the day. It is driven by hormones. DS was dry at night before he was dry in the day, but DD took another 2 years to be dry at night.

What feetheart said, and don't worry about chocolate buttons, praising him to high heaven will give the same result. Sounds like he won't take too long to get it. :)