potty training sucks

I am so tired of potty training baby Doodle and we have barely made any progress. In fact, I think he's regressed a little bit if that's even possible given how little seems to understand about using the potty. These are the things he knows:

• I can tell Mommy that I have to go on the potty at nap and bed time to prolong my awake time with her, even when I don't have to go.

• I know I'm supposed to tell Mommy or Daddy that I have to go on the potty when something is going on in my diaper -- usually after it's already happened.

• Sitting on the potty for long periods of time is a good distraction from what I am supposed to be doing.
  

These are the things I know:

• Baby Doodle asks to sit on the potty after he's already pooped in his diaper.
  
  
• He doesn't seem to know when he has to pee or what that sensation feels like. He has never peed on the potty. Once in a while he'll say he has to pee, we'll go to the potty and he'll squeeze his penis until a drop of pee comes out and he'll squeal, "I peed in the potty! Aren't you proud of me, Mommy?" I always say yes and hug him and praise him for sitting on the potty at all, but I don't think that's working since he's not learning that he didn't actually pee.
  
  
• Baby Doodle almost never asks to sit on the potty unless it's time for him to sleep. Since I don't want to discourage potty use I always acquiesce but I'm getting really tired of spending 20 minutes in the bathroom when he's supposed to be sleeping and he doesn't pee or poop. It's obviously a stalling tactic, but I find it so difficult to tell him he can't go on the potty when he asks to go. I say, are you sure you have to poop? Does it feel like you have to poop? etc. . . Yes is the response I get, then --- nothing.
  
  
• I'm frustrated and tired of dealing with it and we've only just begun!!!!