The Joys of Motherhood

Maybe it was because I was too proud of my Kaden.

Maybe it was because I needed to clean my bathroom and it seemed that nothing would motivate me.

Or maybe it was all just one big oops.

It sure is funny now that it's done!

The story, you ask? Oh yes. I'll tell.

It starts like any other normal day. Kaden wakes up. Kaden asks for breakfast. I ask if he needs to go potty. Kaden says no. Kaden eats breakfast. Kaden tells me he needs to go potty. Kaden takes his pants and underwear off. (ALL the way off.) Kaden gets on his stool to get on the potty. Kaden goes potty. Kaden gets down. Kaden puts his underwear and pants back on. All with little or no help from me.

I'm proud of this. VERY proud that at 2 1/2 Kaden is so well pottytrained...(not that I could have forced him!) This is why I wonder if it was punishment for my pride.

Today we skip to the part where Kaden takes his pants off. He deviates from plan. He decided the door must be closed to avoid sister coming in to try to stick her hand in the toilet. (I appreciate this deviation). I hear massive, hysterical screaming. I run into the bathroom to find Kaden standing there---peeing. Now, I know you are picturing a puddle on the floor.

NO. this kid was PEEING. I mean, I have never seen these amounts of pee come out of a child before. And it was going straight out from him for about 2 feet. As I realize this I see that he is turning to me...screaming "It's on my leg! It WON'T stop! It just keeps going!" He's hysterical. Picture this. Hysterical Kaden. Me just trying to keep out of the line of fire! I pinched his "pee thing" (as he calls it) and sat him on the toilet, and stood there. As I assessed the damage it all hit me how hilarios that less than 5 second episode really probably was. And how not hilarious the clean up would be.

Enter Katelyn.

Let's just say I had a lot of clean-up of both kids and the bathroom. (It did get the deepest cleaning it's had in a while!) And, I was able to laugh about it. It was hilarious. I asked Kaden why he did it...why he didn't wait til he was on the toilet and he said "My pee-thing just wouldn't stop!" Later, he needed to go potty again and wouldn't take off his underwear. When I asked him why he said "My pee-thing might start before I'm on the toilet!"

He's nervous about the whole potty thing. But I think in a day or 2 two we'll be back to his normal, potty-trained schedule. Maybe a bit less pride.

I'm just so glad it was in my own house, with no one around. So so glad.