Posted on Mon 12/21/09 in Fatherhood
We had Ethan’s 4th Birthday Party at our house this weekend. It was pretty much an all-boy Transformers, bounce house, go nuts party. The weather could not have been more perfect. The kids had a blast — several kids actually asked if they could come back for a play-date some time. Sure! If you don’t have kids, you might not realize this next fact: the true measure of a party’s success is the number of kids who poop or pee their pants. This party had a total of six poops and one pee, if you count Ethan’s incident prior to the party. And, one child was even responsible for more than one of those all by himself. The parents all say their kids never have accidents, and I believe them. Ethan rarely does either, expect when he’s doing something he really likes. He waits until the absolute last second to make a run for the bathroom, but four-year-old kids just haven’t the time management skills to account for the transit time to get to the throne. Sometimes Ethan and I sprint home from the park, he shouting the entire way that he can’t hold it. Even as adults, there are instances when we are sprinting and thinking the very same thing. For me, it’s Indian food.
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