The dog ate my poop!

It must be something a boy just knows, that he simply has the ability to pee wherever he pleases. Is this due to the handy location of the instrument that he pee's from? Probably!

Merrick, 3 years old, very successful at always going potty in the POTTY! Until one quiet afternoon with Grandpa. They were playing in the backyard, and the neighbors dog lifted a leg and pee'd through the chain link fence...and so begins my sons fascination with peeing wherever it's convenient. (And grandpa's enjoyment of seeing me freak out that my son is peeing everywhere). Well Grandpa on this fine day, in response to the dog peeing through the fence, teaches my son to pee back through the fence. Of course I didn't find out about it until Grandpa was bragging about how awesome it was!

A few weeks later, my beautiful boy became the kid at the park who just pee'd in front of everyone when he decided to whip it out in the middle of a birthday party and pee right next to the entrance to the big, rented, blow up, jumping castle thing! Ahhhh! I was standing on the other side of the party, and looked up to see him pulling up his pants, and turned to my boyfriend and asked why he thought our son had his pants down in the middle of the park. I then ran to my son and asked him, and he informed me that he had to pee. And that Grandpa said it was ok to pee outside! WRONG!

A couple days later, we were at Grandpa's house, it was Father's Day. I was inside cleaning up, and my son was in the back yard playing with the dogs. I went out to check on him, because as you know when a kid gets quiet it usually means they are doing something naughty. Well sure enough it was naughty...Again Merrick is pulling up his pants, with Mack (a mini dachshund) close behind. Preparing myself for another pee story, I ask him what he was doing. "I pooped mama, but I can't find my poop because Mack ate it!" (My child speaks very well for a 3 year old) So now we have progressed from peeing in the park to providing a delicious poopy treat for Mack! Good lord! So Merrick spent the next 10 minutes in time out, sitting on the toilet, so he could be reminded that the only place we poop is in the toilet!

I am hoping that this also got the point across to my father that teaching a kid to pee outside only leads to bad poopy things, and that he was in as much trouble as my son. And that maybe the fact that his little dog just ate poop with the mouth that licks him! ha!

Unfortunately the story does not end here. I thought that the time out on the toilet, and the big trouble was enough, however I am sad to say, 4 days have passed, and we are still battling the newly learned ability to pee wherever Merrick finds convenient.

We were cleaning up the house, and I had asked Merrick to go to his room and pick up his toys. I was cleaning my bathroom, and again Merrick was quiet. Yikes! So I head to his room to check on his progress. Well I catch him carrying his Halloween pumpkin bucket to his bathroom, and he starts dumping out some liquid...in my head I'm thinking, please god let that be water and not pee! I ask Merrick was he was dumping in the toilet, and with the guiltiest look on his face ever, he giggles and tells me it's pee! GIGGLES! Ummm no sir, giggling is really not appropriate at this point, so again we have a big, loud talk about how we don't pee anywhere but in the toilet. And more time out!

I have to wonder if all this random peeing, in random places i.e. the pumpkin bucket, is his way of telling me that he's jealous of his new baby sister, and all this peeing is getting him attention! That or it's just a male prerogative to pee whenever & wherever they please, and that trait just happens to be something that comes with the territory of having a boy!