Evan: Look, Mommy, I pooped!
Sure, enough, there it was sitting in the potty, but I was over that. I picked up the plastic tub to dump it.
Evan: Mommy, wait! What shape do you think it is?
Me: Um. What do you think it is?
Evan: Hmmmm. It looks like a crescent moon!
Me: I think you’re right.
Add that to the list of things I never thought I would talk about.
Evan and Sean gathered around the toilet to watch the flushing. Evan lay down to stare at the toilet from the ground.
Me: Evan, what are you doing?
Evan: I want to see it go down to the ground.
Me: You can’t see it because the toilet isn’t see-through.
Evan: But the poop is going into the ground?
Me: Yes, the poop and the water go into the ground to the sewer where it is taken away.
Evan: It’s dark underground.
Me: Yes. It is.
Evan: Alligators live there.
Me: No, alligators live in swamps.
Evan: No, they live underground where the poop goes.
I think there’s an uncle involved somewhere in this mess.
May 31, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I love it. Completely convinced of their own theories…or the theories that sound cool, anyway.
May 31, 2009 at 7:38 pm
You can ALWAYS count on uncles to relay the important lifestyle facts of semi-aquatic carnivorous reptiles.
June 1, 2009 at 7:28 am
What is it with kids and their fascination with poop?
June 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Jessica~ I know. Remember when we were all convinced of things like that?
ck~ Yeah. Just like I caught one uncle explaining about man-eating sharks. Fine, you take him to the beach next time.
Gibby~ We also have to debate on size.
June 1, 2009 at 10:32 pm
You know, I have heard stories about alligators coming up through toilets. Wait, those were urban myths. Well, SOMEONE is telling people that. So maybe alligators DO live where the poop is.
June 2, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Like the flushing wasn’t enough to scare Evan from trying a real tiolet.