I hope, oh how I hope that one of these lessons will be learned by my oldest child. We have had another pottying in public incident. It all started a few weeks ago when we came home from a wonderful family vacation to the Smoky Mountains to find water and black mold in a closet downstairs. How does this relate to Parker relieving himself in public? Stick with me, you will see.
So, my brother-in-law Wes who is AWESOME and can fix or build anything (he is pretty much Bob The Builder only his name is Wes) said he could come fix my bathroom but only on this one weekend. Well, that weekend just HAPPENED to be the last weekend of the pumpkin patch. Needless to say that while my super handy brother-in-law and his sidekick, my adorable husband were working on the bathroom (and watching football), my sister and I decided to get our 4 kids out from under their feet and to the pumpkin patch.
Parker and Olivia playing in the corn....
Well it was a lovely day and while they had already taken down a few of the things that kids love to do, our kids just loved hanging out and running free. The pumpkin patch people had plowed down their little cotton field and my adorable niece was busy picking up what they left behind. Parker was trailing her as they are inseparable and they were being so sweet. I turned my head to watch my oh so cute nephew and my little one playing. I was feeling a little sad because I knew this was going to be rare from Wyoming but don't worry, those sad feelings were replaced with HORROR as I turned back to Olivia and Parker only to find my ALMOST FOUR year old with his pants heading quickly to his ankles......I started running, I would like to tell you that I was running AWAY from the scene and pretending not to know this child but no, I was running toward him because who else is going to tell this boy that he is not to expose himself in public.
As I was running I was trying to get his attention without actually screaming to him to pull up his pants. I figured he probably had plenty of viewers and was trying not to gain more! I said very sternly "Parker , NO"! He looked up and realized that uh oh, this was probably a bad decision! He quickly pulled up his pants and we went to the restroom. If only he had happened as smoothly as it seems when I type it out here. It was totally embarrassing and reminded me that kids often teach us tiny lessons on pride.
Oh, did I mention that there were not one, but TWO birthday parties at the pumpkin patch that day? Did I also mention that there were probably 20-30 kids there for EACH?! Oh yea, that's right! Look out Wyoming, HERE WE COME!
My adorable nephew Evan....how I love this kid....
Until next time,
~Leigh or Debbi~ if you need to know about this read my first blog.
