'twinkle twinkle' or 'fun with counting..'

Tobias' first year in school has been a very educational one. Letters.., numbers.., he learns more new things in one day then i do in one week... ,..well, ..probably a month.. ......maybe..a year. But I digress.

For awhile he was very into counting things. He would just automatically see things in groups and start counting them. One of the more .. umm.. interesting things he started counting was how many times he could stop and start the... umm... flow.. of his pee at one go. He'd stand there and count.. '1, 2, 3, 4,..' and so on while he'd squirt into the toilet. funny.

Once we were at a friend's house for a kid's birthday party and I went into the washroom with him. It was a little tight so I kept the door ajar. One of the mother's saw me go in and thought it was me pee'ing like that. funny.

Another time we were at a public toilet and because of his size and the fact that he was just learning to go to the washroom if the toilet was filthy I would pick him up by his pants and across the shoulders. I know it's hard to envision but basically I'd be holding him up horizontally over the toilet and he would pee straight in. Well, this one time he started his new counting routine.. by the time he was on '5' I realized he wasn't as light as he used to be. It's an interesting picture. Father struggling to hold up his son horizontally over a toilet while the son counts dollops of pee all the while the father feels his back creeping closer to that moment when there's a quick painful twinge and a week's worth of walking lopsided. funny.

who knew counting.. and/or peeing could be so fun.