Despite me objecting to the idea of letting the boys urinate in the shower just before showering, my husband liked the idea knowing they used the bathroom before bed. Getting the boys to actually use the bathroom before bed was often a tedious ritual wrought with delay after delay. So the peeing in the shower seemed to get the boys to bed sooner.
For many months, it was just done before the actual washing began, but one night my 5-year-old screams, “pee fight!” My 5 year old, who actually has amazing aim, starts spraying his brother who is squealing and trying to shield himself in the corner. Once the older one is done, I see my 3 year olds amazing mind at work. He stands directly in the middle of the shower and begins turning in a circle and peeing on his brother who can’t seem to outrun the “circle of yellow.”
Let me say, before I had boys, I would have been MORTIFIED, if I heard this story from a friend. I would have thought her children to be uncouth and unruly. But after 5 years with boys, I couldn’t help but keep my mouth shut, laugh and let my boys be boys.
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