As you would no doubt expect, the boys do everything together.  Eat, play, go to school, pee, you name it.  If one needs to, the other soon has to as well.  Pee breaks are the most synchronized, especially when in a restaurant more so when a bathroom is nowhere near by.

At home, potty breaks are still interestingly timed.  During dinner, when one is in trouble, when neither wants to sleep, so it goes.  Generally, this is fine.  Often annoying, but fine nonetheless.

There are, of course, problems with these scenarios.  Timing would be one, two boys, one bathroom.  Well, two bathrooms, but no one ever wants to have to go up or down to the other.  This often leads to side by side peeing, often punctuated with little bumps or screams of “Mom, his pee is touching my pee!”  Creativity can be encouraged (not by us), especially when nature calls in varying ways.

I recently had the opportunity to witness such creativity.  M has an amazing habit of needing to poop when I’m shaving.  Not that I don’t like spending time, just the two of us, it’s just the grunts and faces while holding a sharp object can be detrimental to my own well being.  On this particular morning, C also came in to the bathroom and announced his need to pee.  Without any form of communication I was able to detect M scooted forward, C moved around back and deftly peed without hitting the toilet seat or his brother.  This made me think two things, first: whoa, that was impressive.  Second, good lord, how do you react to that?  (And maybe a third thought of wow, glad we recently changed back to a real toilet seats.)

Um, high five?