Sitting or Standing

   In our house we have a rule...if you can't pee standing up without peeing all over the place, you sit.  At times I've even given my husband this mantra because in the middle of the night we sometimes miss.  I'll admit it now; I am an anal retentive clean person, and I like my house clean or at least as clean as 4 little boys, 2 cats, 1 dog and a husband can make it.  So...when I went looking for my AWOL 16 month old yesterday morning before school started, and found him trying to sip pee water with a straw out of the downstairs toilet I might have lost my skittles a little. 
   Rewind 10 minutes earlier...the boys are eating their breakfast, suddenly Cam has to pee.  While yelling pee pee as he runs across the house towards the bathroom I am finishing getting snacks ready for the day, and trying to peel Kolin off of my leg where he is now continually attached.  After giving Kolin a straw to entertain himself ,so I could finish getting every ones backpacks ready to go, I start yelling for everyone to brush their teeth.  Where did Kolin go?  I walk by the darkened doorway to the bathroom and realize that it should be closed.  Kolin has a little problem with being in the bathroom alone (ie: he loves toilets, toilet cleaner, plungers, etc...).  At first is seems empty until I turn on the light and look around the door. 
   There is my baby swishing his straw around the toilet water that happens to be yellow.  That's when I notice that not only is the toilet not flushed, but the lid and seat are also up.  WTF!  With multiple animals in the house and a baby the #1 rule is to put the lid down.  That doesn't even touch on the fact that the boys are not allowed to stand because they can't seem to aim right and no amount of trees can teach them. 
   As the boys start to file into the bathroom I'm yelling at Cam about sitting, not standing, putting down toilet seats and flushing the toilet (which is Cam's trade mark).  I start handing out tooth brushes when I notice that the boys are making dirty foot prints because there is water on the ground.  Wait. What? No, not water, pee.  Not only did Cam not flush, leave seats up and stand, but he also peed all over the ground.  I actually felt the vein pop out on my forehead and my head may have spun around once.  As I asked Cam "Why!?" he looked me in the eye and said "because I wanted to".  Ah, yes, that is what my wonderfully smart 4 year old thinks of most of the things that he does in his life.  Poor soul has a lot to learn.