May 14: Urine for a Surprise

As a parent, urine is something that you kind of grow thick skin towards as you're typically dealing with your child's pee - whether in a soaked diaper or spraying randomly around the changing table - since the day the child was born. But, today, today was a completely new situation for me in that particular area. The day before we had taken both kids for their annual physical, and, unfortunately, my son was unable to leave a required sample for the doctor to analyze. So, we brought the little bottle with the orange screw-on top home with us in the hopes of collecting what otherwise went unseen at the doctor's office. Lucky for me, I get the kids ready and off to school in the morning, so I was nominated "bottle holder" for this procedure. And, considering it was Friday and the Doc is a no-show for the weekend, our time to get this done was obviously reminiscent to a small window. So, we got to it! Oddly, my son demonstrated a greater passion to hit the cup here at home than he did back at the doctor's place, but I figured it's probably better that he's eager to do it than the alternative. I can attest to the fact that dealing with your son's urine at age 1 is a completely different experience than at age 5. First, he has more control of his aim and, secondly, my son is a clown who will do anything silly for a laugh. When I added those two things together in my head they didn't add up to a good outcome...at least for me. And, I was right. Immediately into the collection process he managed to clip my hand with a healthy stream, giggling hysterically as he did so. Thus, I kept the sample size small and called it good. Why tempt fate or a 5-year old with a vendetta against his Father for not granting that candy request the night before? Interesting way to start a Friday morning though.