Stalling Potty Success

It's hard not to subscribe to Murphy's Law. At least for me personally. Just a little while after my blithe blogging on Luke's potty progress came the untimely, disappointing potty regress. The past couple of days he refused to even go near the potty, although he would still wear his buzz light year underpants and not wet his clothes. But he would rather hold his pee pee till we give him his diaper. It's a deadlock and there's not much we can do about it.

We have a few speculations about this stalling period:

1. The novelty of peeing inside the potty has worn out
2. some sort of digression on development (my "What to Expect in the Toddler's Years" says that it's normal that toddlers revert to childish behavior as they feel the stress of gaining new responsibilities as they grow)
3. Terrible Twos - the rebellious, adolescent phase which toddlers would go the opposite way to whatever they are told. Coincidentally, Luke has been in his extreme "No" phase the past couple of days, which he protested down to every single piece of instruction from us...
4. Changes in routines and environment. And changes indeed. Since December 5, 2006, our home has been a revolving door for a constant stream of coming-and-going visitors. Even Matt and I are suffering a burnout from having guests in our apartment ALL THE TIME. W0uld not be surprising that Luke's reacting to that, too.
5. All of the above.

Whatever it is, I will sure bear in mind of my mother-in-law's motto: Potty training is a long term process. Hopefully it will get better when we get out of our guest house phase (Feb 27 - just a few more days away!).