Who Pee'd on the Blinds?

Becky called me yesterday at work.

"There's pee on the windowsill and the blinds".

"Honey, how can that dog DO THAT?" I ask.

"It wasn't the dog." (phew - since I'm beginning to think I may never find a home for her). "It's the window in Tucker and Cade's room".

"Ahhhh, do you think it's Tucker peeing off the bunk bed?" By now, my co-workers are definitely eavesdropping on my conversation.

"No, I think it might be Cade?"

Since this window is about 4 feet off the ground, I'm thinking "gee, Cade sure has a strong pressure stream going there".

And then I get hit with the gender-defining question that I knew was coming.

"Why would boys do that?" Becky asked.

Well, sweetie, I've thought about this a lot during the last day. There's not a real answer except for this - they are boys!

See, all boys around this age learn the mystique of the stream. Now that they know how to control it, it's just not peeing anymore. It becomes a light saber (and all you boys remember the urinal troughs in first grade where you would cross streams with others in pretend sword fights), it becomes a pen you can write your name with in the snow, the possibilities are just endless. I'm sure it all starts during potty training when you give them the little pellets to aim for in the toilet.

I'm sure there are some adoption specialists out there who might think that this some deep-seated attachment fear from being abandoned by their birth mom and by peeing on the blinds they are expressing their desire to re-unite. I would say bunk to that.

I'm sure Dr. Sears would say it's an attachment thing and I should bring the child into my bed and co-sleep, and allow them to express their individuality in finding their own boundaries. To which I would also say bunk - if the boy is peeing off his bed - the last place I want him is MY bed.

I'm sure Love and Logic would say that I need to tell him I love him too much to let him pee off the bed and explain to him all the options, then let him decide. To which I would again say "bunk - it stinks and it's going to stop - because I DO love him too much".

And I'm sure my dear friends the Ezzo's would say that they are outside the funnel (to which I would agree - but I'm not going to give Tucker a funnel cause he would probably pee in it). But Gary and Anne Marie, I've gone back through the videos and books and haven't found this situation addressed (maybe it was one of those questions that ended up on the cutting room floor) - so maybe you could include it in the new video series. I'm sure Tucker and Cade would love to be in one of the videos.

Meanwhile, I'll clean off the blinds, bump up the couch times, and continue to pray that Tucker and Cade live to see 5.