Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Being a kid


Yesterday I was reminded by Jacob that I once was a kid too. How quickly we forget to enjoy the good, the bad, and the ugly (in my case, the stinky) with our kids who are growing up too fast :O(


Jacob has been potty trained for a few weeks now, and since his 3rd bday is coming up, he wants to be the "big" guy at home. So, when he goes poops, he wants to take care of the cleaning himself. We always go in after he is done and make sure "all" is clean, hands and toosh.


Yesterday, he went in as usual, but was taking too long to come out for back-up and was WAYYY to quite in there. I slowly make my way to the bathroom and hear him giggle to himself. When he sees me, he goes "tadah!!" as if announcing something exciting. I look and he had taken more than half the toilet paper roll and stuffed it in the toilet! Great, just great!! Of course MY initial reaction was to give him a small smack on the bottom and tell him that was a big no-no. As I'm trying to figure out how not to clog the toilet, he looks at me, with his pants still down and with the cutest innocent smile and says "Momma, didn't you ever do this when you where a kid?" That just melted my heart. I said "You know what, you are right. I probably did this once or twice when I was little." He smiled like an accomplice does, pulled up his pants and went to wash his hands without saying anything else :O)


This made me stop and think. I need to relax more, laugh more and let go more. One day he will be all grown up and these days will be all but a sweet and sometimes stinky memory :O)

1 comment:

mari said...

I love what he said-I can't believe he said that!! What a sweet reminder to all of us that we were kids too and we have all done silly things here and there! He is just precious!! Thank you for sharing that story:) We miss you.