Boys Will Be Boys

So here is just one reason why it is great to have boys to raise.  Our “plumbing” that we are given makes going to the bathroom entertaining and quite convenient in pretty much any situation or surrounding.  Add a thin layer of snow on the ground and little boys and big boys will have some fun.

 

Anyone who knows my mom knows how much she loves to decorate for Christmas.  Her front yard each year is graced with reindeer, beautiful white reindeer that have lights illuminating them and motors animating their movements.  There is a male deer standing tall and proud with his head rotating left to right watching for danger.  Not too far away is a female deer with her head moving up and down as if grazing and then looking up for an instant, and then back to grazing.  I believe there were two other non-animated deer also standing somewhere near. 

Well…. Nick, Nate and I roll up on Grandma’s winter wonderland, and I had hardly come to a stop, and Nick jumps out of the vehicle and takes off running towards the deer.  I put the vehicle in park, shut it off, get out and start heading to the house, and I can hear Nick laughing hysterically. I look over and he is standing behind the female deer peeing in the snow, coloring it yellow on the ground behind her.  Nick stops mid-stream, still laughing and waddles over to the next deer, the male, and then resumes making another yellow stain in the snow under the males mid-section.  He continues until he has visited each deer in the winter wonderland, giggling the whole time.  I just stood there shaking my head, as Nathan laughed while we witnessed Nick’s handy work.  

We head in to the house and Nick and Nate continue to laugh at what had just been done.  My Mom says, what’s so funny?  Nick pipes up and says, have you looked at your deer lately?  She says, you better not have knocked them over, and slips on her shoes to go see what my kids did to her display.  Nick and Nate are right behind her and she gets out there and all the deer are still standing.  She looks back at my kids and says, what did you do to my deer?  Nick says, go a little closer!  Then Grandma yells what the heck, did you pee by my deer?  Nick is bent over laughing.  Grandma is still going on, and says why would you do that, child?  Nick said, so you would know if it’s a boy deer or girl deer Grandma.  Grandma Bonnie replied, I already know which is which!  With Nick’s quick wit, he finishes by saying well, reindeer have to pee too Grandma.

This was the start of something that Nick would do every time those deer were out and there was snow on the ground.  Every time after that incident when we came over and if Nick was giggling when we entered Grandma’s house, she would say, “Nick, you didn’t pee by my deer again did you?”  Nick would just continue to giggle, and tell her, NOPE, not me.

I didn’t have photo evidence of Nick in action in Grandma’s winter wonderland, however, I am able to implicate him in another similar situation.  In April of 2009, just before Nick turned 10, the pasture behind my parents’ house in Norfolk caught fire.  It was a close call, because the fire had burned up to and inside of the back yards of 4 of the neighbors including Mom & Dad’s.  After the firefighters left, Mom, Dad, Nick, Nate and I went to survey the damage.  Nick came across a cow pie (manure) that was still on fire.  Nick immediately unbuttons his pants and yells out, “DON’T BOTHER CALLING THE FIREMEN GRANDMA, I’LL GET IT!”  Grandma Bonnie had her camera in hand and snapped this picture.  Look at that kid, and his brother to the left, laughing his head off at him and his antics.  

Thanks to you Nick, I never look at reindeer in people’s front yards without thinking of U.  Miss U.  - Dad.

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