I was glad Andrew was intelligent.  However, there were two things that annoyed me.  First, was the constant need to replace his shoelaces.  No one seemed to know what he did with them.  I had to buy a huge bag of shoelaces from a wholesaler, since he lost his shoelaces everyday.  Eventually, when I found a pair of shoes with velcro, I bought them.

The second concern I had was his lack of being potty-trained.  I could not understand "why" he had such a problem.  Andrew was four years old before he was potty-trained.  Eventually, I learned he was attached to his diaper, just like he was to the bottle.  Andrew did not let go of his bottle, until he learned to drink from a training cup.  The training cup had a lemon-lime drink in it, before he would learn to accept the change.

Eventually, I learned that it was change Andrew could not accept.  He knew how to use the toilet, since he would take off his diaper to go.  He just did not like wearing underwear.  However, when I bought him underwear showcasing the teenage-mutant ninja turtles, he wore them.  Andrew would accept change only when he was distracted.  Seeing the drawings of turtles on his underwear amazed him, just as enjoying a lemon-lime drink to milk in a bottle was much better.  In other words, he would accept change when it played on his senses.