BABY DONNY BEGINS My name is Donny. When I was 18 months old mom got me potty trained and I was very good at staying clean and dry. Every 20 or 30 minutes I went to my special potty and use it like a pro. Mom was so proud of me because she was going to have another baby and she did not want two diaper babies to care for. For the next six months I only had one accident during the day. But at night I still wet my bed every night so I wore Pull-ups at nighttime only, I was a big boy and did not need baby pants during the day. Every morning I would get out of my big boy bed and pull off my wet Pull-up and put it in the diaper pail that used to be used for my diapers when I was a baby. Then two weeks after my second birthday Ryan was born I had a new baby brother I could play with but I had to wait until he was big enough to walk and play. I was happy to help mom take care of my brother holding his bottle and giving him his pacifier and tell mom when he needed a diaper change. By the time his was 8 months old he could walk and we started to have fun together. Three-Years-Old By the time I was three-years-old and Ryan was one we were sleeping in the same bedroom. Ryan had a crib next to my race car bed so I could take care of him and make sure he stayed quiet. He never made a noise when he slept and his pacifier always fell out of his mouth if he woke up without it he would cry and I would have to put it back into his mouth. One night I woke up with a wet Pull-up and so got up and changed my wet clothes, when I went back to my bed I found Ryan�s pacifier on my pillow. He must have thrown it so I got an idea I could try sucking it just to see what it was like. So I lay down and started to suck Ryan�s pacifier and quickly fell asleep. I woke up the next morning to Ryan crying. I jumped out of my bed and went to see why he was crying. I climbed into his crib to comfort him since I was still quite small there was plenty of room. I still had his pacifier in my mouth before I realized I was sucking his pacifier. He pulled it out of my mouth then put it in his mouth quieting down. I felt so ashamed just then mom came in and asked what was wrong. I said. I don�t know as I started to check his diaper he was clean and dry. I told mom he doesn�t need a diaper change. Mom picked him out of the crib and put him down to walk with her to the kitchen. I needed help to get out of the crib because I could get into the crib but had trouble getting out. I started to follow when I realized my Pull-up was soaked. I remover the wet Pull-up and put it into the diaper pail. I put my big boy pants on and ran to the kitchen. When I walked into the kitchen Ryan was being fed in his highchair mom had my food on the table ready for me. I sat in my booster seat because I was so small for a three-year-old I needed a phonebook under the booster seat to get me high enough to eat at the table. I still needed a training cup because I still spilled a lot. Mom put my bib on so my clothes did not get so messy when I ate my breakfast. After breakfast Ryan and I played in the playroom we had all kinds of Playschool toys to have fun with. I had to use the potty several times while we played but Ryan just used his diaper he was just a baby and did not know how to use the potty. I was a big boy and proud that I could use the potty and not baby diapers. Four-Years-Old For the next year my life did not change. Ryan was still a diaper baby doing all the baby things a baby does. I was four years old, learning to read at a second grade level and do math at the fourth grade level. I still liked to play with baby toys because toys are my favorite thing in the world. Ryan was still diapered. Mom had no interest in potty training him; besides, he only pooped once a day and wet three or four diapers a day. He never wet when he slept. Ryan was very little trouble for her to care for, almost like me. Six months later Ryan potty trained himself, telling mom when he needed to be potty before he wet or messed his diaper. After three days for doing good and not wetting or messing a diaper mom bought him real big-boy underwear since he was bigger than me. He had his own; mine was too small. Mom bought him a new bed and he started to eat at the table with the family. Dad was so proud of Ryan being so grown up. He started to play with us more and more. Mom told us she was going to have another baby in about six months, one month after Ryan and my birthday. That meant the baby things were going to come back and Ryan and I were going to have a brother or sister to play with when they get old enough. I was still a bedwetter and Ryan did not know I knew he did not wet, so I wanted to keep my bed wetting a secret. Ryan always looked up to me because I was the big boy, even if he was almost a head taller and 15 pounds heavier than me. I did not want him to know at night I was still the baby. It worked out very well because I woke up before everyone and could dispose of my wet Pull-up before he woke up. Mom helped out. She would put my Pull-ups under my pillow so I could put them on before I went to sleep. Ryan would never know what a baby I am at night. Five-Years-Old When Sam and Timmy were born they spent their first eight months sleeping in the nursery next to mom and dad�s room. Ryan and I were sleeping in our room doing big boy things Sam and Timmy were being babies doing baby things. I had to go to school I started second grade at the age of five. But I need to use the potty every half hour and that was too disruptive to the class so the school put me back in kindergarten where the potty was at the back of the classroom and I could use it anytime I need to. I was tutored in kindergarten class doing fourth-grade work. I helped the other kids learn to read better and faster. I still could not be too far from the potty because I did not want to have an accident in front of the other kids. Six-Years-Old The summer I turned six was when Ryan found out I was a bed wetter and I lost all his respect. He told me Sam and Timmy were dry in the morning and were going to started using training pants just like the ones I used at night. I thought they would not be two until next year I hoped they would stay in diapers for a lot longer. I did not want to be the only one wearing diapers. Ryan was told by mom if he told anyone he would wear diapers until after Sam and Timmy were potty trained. Ryan helped keep my secret but I was no longer the boss; he was in his eyes. I started to find a pacifier in my mouth in the morning when I woke up. Ryan would just giggle and say, �Baby Donny needs a diaper change.� I could not cry until I dropped the pacifier out of my mouth and if I cried to loud mom would make me suck on it for a half hour that was the rule of the house for criers. Seven-Years-Old When I was seven Sam and Timmy were a little over two-years-old and starting to learn about the potty from Ryan. He wanted them to be potty trained so I would be the only one needing diapers. Within two weeks Sam and Timmy were totally potty trained. Mom and dad bought one more bed for Ryan so Sam and Timmy could take my bed and Ryan�s old bed in the room next to mom�s and dad�s room. Ryan�s new bed was set up and one of the old cribs was set up for me. I protested and cried so in went the pacifier. Mom said when I stopped wetting my bed then I would get a new bed. Ryan giggled and mom told Ryan if he teased Donny any more he would have the other crib. When fall came Ryan went to first grade with me the potty was still in the back of the room so I had no trouble keeping my pants dry. Mom told Ryan that if he told anyone that I still wet my bed and slept in a crib he would wear nothing but diapers to school for a week and sleep in a crib until two month after I was out of my crib. That scared him so much he kept my secret. Eight-Years-Old Now that Sam and Timmy were three-years-old they had big boy beds and I have one of their cribs to sleep in. They did not see anything wrong with it. Their room looked like a toddler room with all the Playschool toys that I still liked to play with. I was all the time playing with Sam and Timmy and their toys while Ryan was playing with older boys� toys. Toddler toys were more my size since I was so small. To look at me playing with Sam and Timmy I looked the same age, maybe younger; they were just a little bigger than me. My favorite toy was their spring horse in their room. But I was not allowed on it because mom said I was too old for such a baby toy. But I was allowed to play with all the other baby toys that were around. We had so much fun until mom told us we would start daycare tomorrow and I would be in a class with Ryan and Sam and Timmy would be in a class with two- three- and four-year-olds. The first two days of daycare was fun but the third we were going to the zoo. They told everyone to go potty and I did. Then we were all put on the bus and since I weighed less than sixty pounds I had to use a care seat that they had to buckle me into. I saw that there was no way for me to unbuckle myself and got worried. About one half hour later I need to go pee bad and told the caretakers. They just told me to hold it but I could not and soaked my pants sitting in a care seat. I was so ashamed. I had not ever wet my pants, just wet my bed, not my pants now; what was I going to do? When the bus stopped I was released and picked up, showing everyone how wet I was. Everyone giggled, causing me to wet again. One of the caretakers said she had a few diapers and a change of clothes for the toddlers and babies on the other bus. She walked me to the other bus just as Sam and Timmy were being carried off. She told the other caretaker to take me into their class but I my clothes changed first. In the back of the bus I was changed from a big boy into a diaper baby and had to stay in the baby class for the rest of the summer. I had to eat in a highchair nap in a crib play with babies and baby toys. I was treated just like a baby. At home I received the same treatment. Ryan, Sam, and Timmy were now my big brothers, treating me just like a baby. All my clothes were baby clothes. Since I was a lot smaller than my brothers their clothes did not fit and I had to wear what mom or my brothers put on me. I was all the time wetting and messing my diaper after two weeks of baby food and bottles. By the time I turned nine-years-old I was more of a two-years-old than a nine-year-old. When I was at daycare I was put in with the babies and my brothers went in the big boy class. This is how I became an adult baby. At first I did not like being a baby but now I would have it no other way. I accept my baby life now looking back on it.