"The Wohst Walk Evuh!"

We've been walking at least one time a day to and from school whenever we can--gets our exercise in and shaves our gas bill (the majority of my driving comes from the three times a day I have to travel to school). It's almost a 1 1/2 mile round trip, so it's long enough to get some real exercise in without being too much. Seth is a great little trooper and Blane usually rides in the stroller so we can move faster (although he's walked before). Yesterday we picked up Zac, played a little on the school playground and headed back. Predictably, Seth needed to go the bathroom. Of course, it's next to impossible for him to do that because there are nothing but residential streets and lawns from the school to the house (this happened after we left the school--of course).

The trouble started when I decided we would go a different way than we usually did--different from the way Seth wanted to go. It's essentially the same distance to our house and I hoped he would forget about his problem (usually he does--Seth has a dramatic streak, as we all know). Of course, Seth was upset and complaining the entire time. When I realized he was not going to forget about the bathroom, I decided we would stop by the clubhouse on the way home (the pool opens today, May 16th). At least there are common areas and plenty of bushes to go behind, and it was closer than our house. Seth lost it when we did not turn towards the house. "This is the WOHST WALK EVUH!" he wailed. He was so distressed he wouldn't even listen when I told him where we were going and how it was closer than the house and how we were taking a shortcut to the clubhouse. "I'm going to WET MY PANTS!"

We made it to the clubhouse, he found a bush, and he didn't wet his pants. But the complaining and fussing didn't stop when we got home, so he had to go to his room and "rest" for about 20 minutes.