Traveling with the boys up to my parents today proved to be very interesting!
Let me start by saying that it wasn’t particularly a great day at work for my husband nor for myself. The one benefit for me was that I took the second half of the day off to spend time with my cousin who was visiting from out of state. It’s been very busy at work lately, actually somewhat overwhelming. However I think my 1/2 day vacation was just what the docotr ordered. My husband has had a couple of difficult day’s at work as well.
The plan was to meet my husband at home, pick up the kids, pick up some wood at his parents from the apple tree we had to cut down last week. Then we were going to make the 1.5 hour drive to my parents house.
In case you hadn’t guessed the afternoon didn’t go exactly as planned. Andy got home late, which made us late getting the kids from daycare. Then we had an extra stop at Aldi to pick up some milk for my mom, since it’s much less expensive down where I live. Only after that did we get to my in-laws parent’s to pick up the wood. We FINALLY got on the road an hour late.
The kids had a bottle of water and were supposed to drink it sparringly, however being 3 and 4, we all know that didn’t happen.
About 40 minutes from our destination, from the back of the car I hear, “Mommy, gotta go potty!”. It was my 3 year old who has only been potty trained about 2 months.
All Andy and I could do was look at eachother. We had just passed the last public place to stop on the way. So, what’s a parent to do. We had no choice but to pull off the road onto a side street and to let Ian out to go potty. Vincent decided to go too. So there we are, on the side of the road our boys going to the bathroom. I have to say, I was surprised when I looked and both boys looked like the little calvin sticker you see on the back of some trucks. What suprised me more was the height my 3 year old was getting. He was having lots of fun with it as well….swaying back and forth. However, he was too close to Vincent and I told him to be careful.
You know….I should have known better by now. Ian likes to do everything he’s not supposed to. SO……he turned just enough to pee on his brother!!!! Then he turned to me and gave me the sly grin he always uses when he knows he’s doing something he knows he shouldn’t.
Do you know how hard it is to scold your child when you’re laughing?
Tags: car, children, cute story, funny, kids, potty, training, trip
