Here is the text I received Friday around 7pm:
Hey Tara, We were just driving down [the] road and we saw Charlotte in the back corner of the yard with her pants off peeing in the bush. Just thought I’d yell ya 
My reply:
Thanks for the heads up… Or should I say pants down!
She fessed up to the incident. I explained to her that no matter how badly she had to go, come inside to go potty when you’re that close to a toilet. Of course it doesn’t help that she peed in the rocks at Nana/Papa’s all summer while swimming and Daddy let her go behind our shed before. All I could think is just wait until her brother gets in on this. I keep hearing from parents of little boys how much they like to mark their territory, whipping it out anywhere and everywhere. Wonderful. At least if a brown spot appears in Daddy’s prized green grass this time he’ll know it wasn’t a neighbor dog!
Shelby Lee from Elgin
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 25
This post was written by tthomas on August 30, 2010
OMG Tara that is hilarious! Love it
At least she didn’t pee her pants right!
How did you keep a straight face?! It was an emergency, Mommy.
We were delivering livestock to a farmer one day many, many years ago and heard this sound like “water” running……..turned around and there was their little boy standing on top of a 500 gallon LP tank…..taking a “leak” as they say, think he was trying to see how far he could get the pee to go, I will NEVER forget that. He was probably four or five years old.
Kids will be kids I guess!
Just about everyone with a little boy or girl would have a similar story to tell. I remember when my husband and I and our kids were up town one night at a bar/grill(small town Iowa, I might add). Everyone in the bar was laughing at something going on in the front. We looked to see our son peeing out the front door towards the highway that runs through town. It’s hard to take the country out of a farm kid…….the bathroom is NEVER close enough. Ha ha
Too funny Tara
I remember both of my boys going through a phase of peeing off the top of the slide on our swingset…..kids will be kids
Our twin boys would be outside playing and didn’t want to take the time to come in, so they would just whip it out and do it in the middle of the yard. I remember our neighbors catching them once and trying to scold them but having a hard time not laughing at the same time! Their younger brother did the same thing.
I guess all kids do it at some point in their lives….when my son was 2 or 3, he was playing outside and my neighbor said she looked out her front window and he was standing on the street beside the pickup truck “wetting” the tires of the truck. He knew better than to stand where mom could see him but he didn’t take into account the neighbor’s house. She said she was rolling on the floor it was so funny. He, however, did get in trouble, not because he was peeing on the pickup tires but because he was in the street!!! He’s also the kid who got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and ended up in his closet…yeah, he was a lotta fun!!!
LOL! My husband has taught our son, who is almost 8, to pee outside on the tree! My husband even does it. Thank God for privacy fences:)Oh well, boys will be boys! Our daughter has seen this but hasn’t caught on………..not yet anyway!
As a young married couple, we moved into a home in which the previous owners had put a tractor tire sandbox in the yard. One day I was home alone and the neighbor kids came through the bushes to play in the sandbox. This didn’t bother me until the 2 older brothers started picking on the youngest one. The youngest was not without resources and whipped out his “you know what” and proceeded to spray his brothers. It was hilarious the the sandbox was removed when my husband came home. These guys grew up to be fine young men, but I think they’d be mortified if they knew what I’d witnessed and still remember when I see them around town.
Ha! I was recently picking up an item from a woman and her son “Whipped it out” in the driveway and started peeing right there in front of me, a total stranger! I of course thought it was kind of funny (Not my kid!), and all the mom said was “You let him pee outside once when you’re camping and this is what happens!” Great memories!
My sister tells of the time her older son woke up in the night and she heard him roaming around and either he was dreaming or purposely was peeing on his sleeping brother’s head………..
it’s actually a good “skill” to have… one time on our way home from Mall of America my daughter woke up from napping and needed to go to the bathroom. we were in in iowa but not near any town so pulled off on a side road. She wouldn’t go – had never done it before and was too scared (it was just too different). i think she held it then until we found somewhere….