Phobia

June 9, 2010
We went on a picnic today and it was a good thing I picked the lame park first. I wanted to be adventurous and see something new other than the three parks we always go to. So I unloaded two kids, a car seat, diaper bag, camera bag, blanket, and lunch box and pretty much took over the only two benches there. Not less than two minutes after I started to nurse Cole who had been screaming at us since we had left the library, Pearl came running over yelling she had to go potty and go NOW! Of course! Thank heavens I picked the park I did because had we gone to the one at the school across the street that Pearl wanted to go to, we wouldn't have had the luxury of a public restroom. With no other souls in sight, I hoisted Cole up and over to the bathroom. The poor kid must have thought his milk supply was going to be taken away because he grabbed a hold of my shirt with his little hands and started sucking for dear life. I'm sure the surveillance camera caught a nice glimpse of my left boob at some point during this whole fiasco.

We made it into the bathroom (I was praying as I put my hand on the door handle that it wasn't locked) only to have Pearl dancing around not able to undo her pants or hop up on the toilet. Oh, and her covering her nose and doing her whole cough, this stinks routine. She has a serious phobia of public restrooms. In fact nine times out of ten, if she has to use a public restroom, she'll hold it until we get home. Since Cole wasn't going to let go of me for anything, I squatted down, yanked Pearl's pants off, grabbed her arm, and told her to jump. We barely made it. It was a good thing the park was totally lame because out we came, boobs and all, with thank heavens, no one in sight - which also made me grateful that I didn't have to debate about whether to leave all of our stuff out in plain sight to get stolen by some punk kids or try to drag it all into the bathroom before Pearl had an accident. I'm guessing only a mom would understand the frustration, eye-rolling, and then laughter than ensued once we finished our lunch, Cole included, packed up and drove to the "cool" park that Pearl wanted to go to all along.