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My pediatrician told me that the average age for boys to be potty trained is 39 months, so don't worry if Harry Houdini is resistant to potty training! If he's receptive, go for it, but it's not a failure on your part or his if it's not part of what happens in the near term. (I know different cultures do it earlier and differently, but I assume you're in the US, where I am, and where my ped talked about the average.)

With respect to pajamas, we too have a Houdini, although for him it's all about touching his penis while asleep, something that started around 23 months. The touching wasn't a problem, but his sleeping with his hands down his diaper caused him to wake up in a puddle of urine every morning! Since it's wintertime in the midwest, we put him in one layer of cotton footie pajamas with the feet cut off, so that it can be put on backwards, and then we put a fleecy blanket sleeper with feet over it that can zip up the front. That way if he gets too hot he can open up the blanket sleeper, his feet are covered no matter what, and he wakes up dry in the mornings, thank heavens (and Carter's!)!

If using two sleepers is too heavy for wherever you are, another idea we pursued was to see if we could put him in a onesie underneath a regular footie pajama. Our boy has always been off the charts, height-wise, so the onesie option wasn't available -- he would need a 4T, and I wasn't able to find any onesies that ran that big. If your Houdini is smaller (and since he's younger), you should be able to find onesies in a 24 months size, possibly even as large as 2T. Best of luck!