It Must Be A Boy Thing

It is a beautiful day here. It really feels that spring is here even though the trees are bare and the grass is still brown. But that really doesn't matter because we can go outside to play.

We can play outside until our hearts are content and 4 lovely children can run off all the energy that they have been storing up all winter.

One things that we regularly do when we can go outside is go for a walk up to the mail box. It is the perfect distance to make extra sure that all the energy is drained from my children.

I have a triplet side-by-side stroller and the kids take turns riding, yes even Hayden needs to ride. According to him, this walk is so long (NOT) and he gets so tried that one of the babies must walk so that he can rest.

We were on our way back to the house and Hayden was booted out of the stroller to walk because the babies were getting tired. So he decided to run the rest of the way home. This is all well and good because we don't really live on a busy road and I can see him most of the way expect for on one bend.

As I come up the the bend, getting ready to make the turn, I am blinded by the sun gleaming off something white. A snow pile, perhaps? A white rock, maybe?

Just as I realize that it is the stark whiteness of my eldest son's bare butt as he has dropped trow to take a pee right in the middle of the road, not one but two cars come driving up the road.

Well, I did what any other mother would have done. I parked the stroller, scooped up my half naked, pants around the ankles, peeing child and brought him to the safety of the side of the road, smiling and waving as I went.

Once the cars are gone and pants were returned to their correct position around the waist, Hayden looks up at me eyes full of pride and says,
"See Mom, I peed just like Grandpa showed me, like a really big boy!"




To Hayden's Grandfather's that taught him it was alright to pee in the woods, Thank you so much and I mean that from the bottom of my heart. But I think he may need some more lessons so that when he has to pee it is actually IN the woods.