WE’RE GOING STREAKING!!

Will Ferrell. Old School. That scene. The Mud Puddle acts it out every night before his bath lately. Doing this crazy head shaking, foot flopping dance around the living room, whooping it up whilst we wait for the tub to fill.

Now, I will openly admit I was a streaking freak as a child. Nothing I loved more than being naked screeching through the house. But as the years have passed I have been more conservative in my attire. I prefer to have everything covered, several layers if possible.

It isn’t upsetting or shocking that he is so liberal with his nakedness (that is liberal in the hippy sense, not the John Kerry sense) it is that he doesn’t understand that the ENTIRE neighborhood doesn’t care to see his naked butt on display.

He gets out of the bath, heads for the large picture window in the living room and jumps up and down naked in front of it. I don’t know what the age minimum is for indecent exposure but I am worried we will find out the hard way.

In addition to liking it au natural the Mud Puddle also has an issue with wearing pants. I don’t know how many pictures I have him bombing around in just a diaper, and since giving up the padded bottom for Big Boy pants his aversion to the bottom half attire has not diminished.

One of the first things he does after getting home from a long day at school is drop his pants. You would think I dressed him in medieval armor or something.
He is so tiny around the waist and short-legged that most of his pants are nice and roomy (seriously, they need to make mommy pants the way they make toddler pants), but he wants nothing to do with them once we walk through the front door: He drops trou and demands juice in about five seconds flat.

I assume it is a passing phase and he won’t go to college without any pants. But boys are a little freer than girls – any football season now he and Scott are going to start spending their Sundays sit on the couch, eating cheesy poofs in their boxer shorts while watching games all day long. You can bet your pants on that.