Kids say the darndest things!!!

Yesterday, Kid's Connection took a special trip to Raging Waves waterpark! Ryan went to help chaperone, and I brought the kiddies so I could hang out with Kristi and her little girls and Rachel Toftoy and her little boy. It was a lot of fun and a lot of sun!

After our little guys played their hearts out on the mini waterslides and in the huge sandpit, we met up with our hubbies and decided to have an icecream treat. We hung out for awhile and enjoyed exciting stories from the school-age kids about their waterslide experiences so far that day.

Then Kristi, Rachel, and I decided to have our kids lay down on some lawn chairs in the shade so we could take a rest from the sun. On our walk back, Reese suddenly had to go to the bathroom. But of course, being the little stinker that he is, he didn't just say, "Mommy, I have to go to the bathroom." Instead, he shouted, "Mommy! I have pee-pee coming!" Oh goodness! As I tried to hush him, he shouted even louder, "It's coming from my PENIS!" What!?! I was so embarassed! He never says that word in public! Why in the world would he say that?!?! As I reprimanded him, he must have thought he would give me one more scare...so he interrupted me and said, "I'm touching my.....Pants!" Arrrg! Reese! I thought he was going to say the other P word again. And that had been his little tricky plan! Just to get a rise out of Mommy. Little stinker! And all this in front of my friend, a pastor's wife!!!

At our chairs, we were sitting there chatting, and little Alia (the youngest of the bunch at 23 months...and also the group 'tattle-tale." LOL!) came up to us and said, "Weena! Poopy!" (Which meant Rina has poopy). Yes! Poor Rina had had an accident in her little swim suit bottoms. Yuck! So, while I was pulling her into a corner to discreetly clean her up and put some new bottoms on, she thought she was in trouble, and shouted, "No spank, Mommy! No spank!" Luckily, no one was really around to hear her. But if they had been, I'm sure I would've received some nasty frowns!

Why do my kids have to constantly say things to embarass me?? But, I've decided to find humor in it and realize that no child is perfectly behaved. These are my sweeties. Reese and his sneaky little antics. And Marina and her dramatic episodes. I'm not going to fret over how someone may perceive my kids in an off-moment like that, when I know that I am already constantly trying to teach my kids what is appropriate and what is not.

Where was Mark during all this craziness?? Actually, I have no idea. We hardly saw him all day! He rounded those waterslides and that lazy river all day long with a couple guy friends and a couple really cute girls too! What a stud-muffin!

One more thing...back on the kiddie-slides, Rachel, Kristi, and I had a great system worked out. Kristi stood at the top help our kids board the slide...Rachel stood at the bottom to catch them as they zoomed down toward the water, and I stood at the pool's edge to lift them out of the pool so they could run back up for another turn. Well, after our 'rest-time' on the lawn chairs, we decided to take the kids back over to the slides. Reese ran so fast to the top and slid down so quick, none of us had time to get to the bottom to catch him! He was a bit confused, and looked at this random lady sitting on the edge of the pool next to the slide, and he asked her, "Why didn't you catch me?!?" Poor lady! She said, "because I don't know you, darling!" Haha! Reese Alan!!! That was hilarious! Expecting some stranger lady to catch him at the bottom of the slide. Well, that's it for the waterpark. Ryan and Mark came home with nasty sunburns. So I doused them with aloe while we waited for the Grove's to come over for dinner. We ordered chinese. That's always fun! Then we challenged each other to rounds of Bomberman on playstation, till our thumbs were sore. Fun day!