Aydenisms....

Embarrassing kid-speak moments - you know about those, right?? You hear the stories...your toddler blurts out something about an overweight woman, or why does that lady have a beard? or his face looks funny, etc. etc that makes the parent cringe and hope that everyone within a 2 mile radius goes temporarily deaf for the 3 seconds it takes for your kid to blurt out a most embarrassing socially-inappropriate comment. Luckily....I've never had one of those with either of my boys. Yet.

Until yesterday. We're at the 4th of July celebration and taking a break indoors with the kids in the back play room. AJ suddenly blurts out, "I gotta go potty", doing a potty-jig and holding himself as he sprints down the hall for the one (and only) public bathroom. I get up to follow him, and alas, there's someone in there (not surprising when there are 112 people on the property and only one bathroom)- but AJ is pounding away on the door - "Lemme in! I gotta go potty!!" I shush him and tell him he's going to have to hold it for a minute because someone else is in there going potty. The pained expression on his face told me what he thought of that idea. And lemme just tell you that AJ is one of those kids who will hold his urine in until the whites of his eyes are turning slightly yellow and his bladder is on the verge of spontaneous combustion before he will finally take a break from whatever he's doing and demand that he MUST, that very SECOND, go potty. And you sure as heck better find one. Or else.

I tried to distract him by showing him how to cross his legs to pinch off the urge and he tried it, although he nearly toppled over in the process and probably leaked out half the pee in there anyway. Not a moment later, a very large and friendly man opens the bathroom door and says that he can hold it and allows AJ to go in first. I thank him and help the dancing AJ into the bathroom to go potty. As I'm hurrying him to finish up so the other guy can come back in and do his thing, he decides, "no wait mama....i gotta poop" so he has himself a seat (backwards) on the potty to do his thang. I sigh and hope that the man outside can hold it himself for a few minutes more.

After AJ finishes, as he's washing his hands and I'm helping him get his clothes back on (because as you know, all men have to poop completely naked), I tell him that when we leave the bathroom that he needs to be sure to say thank you to the man outside who let him go potty first. Wanting to be sure that he understood my instructions and didn't barge past the man and forget, I said it again to him.

"Ok, AJ...when we go outside, you need to say thank you to the big man out there who let you go potty, ok? Because he was very nice to let you go first. Do you understand?"

"Yup"

We open the door.
The nice man is outside waiting.

What does AJ say??

"Thank you big man. I had to go poop"