Giraffes
Over the weekend, I took sweatone to the zoo while Zule was driving Dbot to her other daddy's house. We had a fun time, I got him a hot dog. We played in the water park area and on our way out we saw Scotty the new baby elephant. Sweatone also got to feed and pet a giraffe. He liked that, except he was a little afraid of the giraffes long prehinsile tongue. I found out that giraffes are unique in the animal kingdom as they are born with horns. Poor babby giraffe mommas. Also, we looked at all the snakes in the herpaquarium because those exhibits are air conditioned.
Sunday I took him out to my pappaws farm and he was well behaved the entire time, excepting two incidents:
1) on the way out there, he had to pee. We stop at dairy queen to use the restroom. Of course I took him into the women's restroom, b/c there is no way I'm letting a four year old boy go into a man's restroom by himself. There was just an abduction killing last week here in town of a little boy. When I lived in San Diego, a mom let her nine year old boy go into the men's room and a dude slit his throat and sodomized him before he could get help. Well, sweatone does not care, obviously, and pitches a fit b/c he knows damn well he's no girl. He's yelling that he has a penis, rolling around on the dirty floor. Anyone outside the restroom would have been convinced he was being killed fromt he ruckus he was raising. Finally I pinned him against the toilet kind of with his pants down and turned on the water on the faucet. No kid can resist peeing when there's water running. (Parenting tip for you baal, in case it comes up in your future).
2)after we get out to the farm, sweatone started playing with his second cousin Andrew, and he was being really good. I was talking to all of my aunties and my mom, and sweatone and andrew snuck outside and tried to hitch a ride with my two older male cousins on their ATV's. My cousin asked Seaton "Does your mom know your out here?"
Answer: "O yes, her does and her say I can ride the motorcycle by myself!"
My cousin was unconvinced :)