I have heard the word poop more times in the past 4 years than I had ever heard it in all 38 years of my life. Grown women talk about their kids poop like it is a normal part of a daily conversation. News flash, unless you are a mother of a young child, poop does not come up all that often in conversation. For moms, however, it seems normal and fine to discuss our children’s bowel movements with complete strangers. Why? 

I know that as a new parent I was obsessed with poop and making sure that my children were pooping often enough. Constipation was an issue on our house and poop became a hot topic of our dinner time discussion, some things never change.

As my kids got older there was talk of blow out diapers and then on to the not so pleasant potty training experiences. I am close to starting again, it is almost time with Boo and I hope that it goes more smoothly than with AJ.

I still get a yell from the bathroom which is the cue for mom and dad to Ro-Sham-Bo for wiping duties. The worst is when we do not get the call and AJ, being a big boy, wipes himself. It is nice that he tries but if his underwear could talk they would be screaming HELP when he does not.

In addition to our household poop issues, AJ is fascinated with the word poop and thinks that saying it is hilarious. God forbid we see any poop - bird poop, dog poop, any poop is like hitting the mother lode and AJ is off on a poop talking frenzy.

I chose to take AJ to a working farm in town that does tours and talks to kids about the old days growing up on a farm. I thought that AJ would love the animals and the real farm atmosphere. Like I have said before, some choices are better than others.

AJ was more interested in where the animals went to the bathroom, why they didn’t get any privacy and the amount of poop that each animal had in their stall. I think that the word poop came out of his mouth at least 7,000 times in those 2 hours. The animals were fine but the poop was fascinating.

We are planning a trip to the Zoo soon and I can only assume that there will be more interesting and oh so exciting conversations about poop in my near future.

Right now I am waiting for the fish tank, lakes and the oceans to cross his mind. Until then, I am attempting to put a stop to the use of the word poop in our house, honestly I am all pooped out.

Off to make another Mommy Milestone.