News Flash from the Front Lines

The battle wages on. Some progress has been made in certain areas while great resistance has been found in surprising places.
Some minor skirmishes have been won. Doug is now peeing in the potty as long as he is told to go at a regular interval (we're up to around an hour in between times and since he has definitely figured out how to make everything work he is pretty quick). Due to the combination of sticker incentives and finding unique places to pee (rocks anyone?) he is delighted to be able to do it. The next battle front will be poop. He actually asked to be put to bed in a pull-up tonight (rather than the usual diaper...thanks Nana for the nighttime pull-ups).
Andy is another matter. Despite the fact that he probably had more signs of interest and readiness than Doug (gotta love twins) he keeps saying it is hard and I have to coerce him into sitting on the potty for more than a few seconds. He impressively wet three pairs of training pants in less than ten minutes today despite me trying to get him to sit on the potty (would it be considered abusive to duct tape him to it?). He obviously has not yet figured out what muscles to use and despite how stubborn he can be it is going to take some pushing to get him to stick with it.
So the battle wages on.