Don't tip the bucket!

Why do kids find the most parentally embarrassing things, the funniest to do? Yes, I know that "parentally" is not a real word. But it works for me and so it is staying in this post.

We had the ADT guy come out to show us how to use our new security system. Truth be told, we have not been able to use it because when the man explained it to me the first time, I had seven kids running around and screaming. Most of the info he gave me, did not even make it past my outer ear canal, before being shoved aside by "Moooooom! He's looooooking at meeeeeee!!!!!" So all of the info that I should have received just dissipated into the air, much like my daily allocation of sanity.

So, there we were, in the hallway. The ADT man was going over the alarm procedures, the kids were outside playing and I was trying to stay focused while secretly wondering if the kids were actually playing or killing each other. Then I heard a sound coming from my bedroom. Phillip had sneaked back in and made himself at home in my bathroom. He came out naked with a tampon in his crack. The ADT man couldn't contain his laughter when Phillip said, "What? I just wanted to see what it was like. You put them in your butt all the time."

After explaining (more to the ADT man than Phillip) that I do not put those in my rear, I made him remove the tampon and get dressed. When I became brave enough to face the ADT man again, he was still laughing. He finally told me that it was not any worse than the time his daughter found mommy's little "toy" and brought it out during a business dinner party, when she was supposed to be asleep in bed. It was buzzing away and his daughter thought it was the coolest toy ever and wanted to know if she could sleep with it. He said that his wife took their daughter to bed and stayed upstairs for the rest of the night.

Aren't kids just a bucket full of surprises?