Big Boy Undies

So I think we are about to embark upon a great adventure. An adventure that in the end might result in the appearance of my first gray hairs. We have begun potty-training Max. It's amazing how confusing the whole process can be for a two year old. I mean, as adults we don't even think twice about where we will relieve ourselves when we get the urge for the call of nature. But for a two year old it's really foreign to them. We bought Max two potty seats a few weeks ago. A regular one for the floor and a seat cover to go over our regular big people potty. He has shown tons of interests in both and is willing to sit on both for a while, although NOTHING productive has occured with either seat. So yesterday I picked him up some big boy undies with Cars on them and made a big deal about how cool it was to wear thm and how only BIG BOYS get to wear them. He put them on and wore the first pair for almost TWO hours before anything happened. (During that time I consistantly put him on the potty every thirty minutes or so). So finally he acted like he needed to pee, so I rushed him to the potty chair and he just sat there with this wierd look on his face. He wouldn't pee in it, but he did work up a fantastic FART that he was quite please with himself for producing. Finally I figured that I had misread the pee signals and let him get up. So he walks to the other side of the room, got the weird look on his face again and PEED, right on the carpet and in his new Cars undies. GAH!!!!!! I calmly explained to him that we have to pee in the potty, not on the floor and that we had to take the Cars undies off because he had gotten them wet. He was such a heartbroken boy because he couldn't wear "Queen" anymore. He tried putting them back on, but I had to take them downstairs to wash. And we went back into diapers for a few more hours. Later that evening I let him put another pair of undies on and he did quite well for some time. He suddenly became obsessed with his other potty seat in the bathroom and he spent a good hour sitting on the potty off and on and putting toilet tissue in the toilet and then flushing it and waving it good bye each time. But alas when the time came to actually use the potty, he decided that the floor was the most logical place. *SIGH*
SO alas, we will try it all again today. He has to eventually get the idea that pee goes in the potty. Eventually.