Don't freak if your 3yr old pees in his crayon box

As they say "Boys will be Boys". I have lots of little boy stories, some as sweet as they can be and some not so sweet. Looking back now, things that seemed not so sweet at the time are my most cherished memories.
Chad has always been an excellent artist, he would draw and color 24/7. When he was three years old, his Grandmother gave him the most beautiful round tin to put his crayons in. I noticed that he had not had his coloring book and crayons out for several days, but I didn't really think anything about it. One day I went to put his clothes away and the most rancid smell was coming from his closet. I could not track the smell down enough to figure out where exactly it was coming from at the time. A couple of days later we could not even go into his room without gagging. By then there was no doubt where it was coming from. While I was trying to figure out what went so terribly wrong with his crayons, he said to me "I peed in em". When I asked him why, he said "I had to pee". Needless to say I was furious. There isn't much worse smell than crayons fermenting in urine for several days.
It is funny what you remember when your kids are grown and gone from home. Every corner of your home is a memory. This memory came back to me this morning as I was storing some of our winter clothes in Chad's closet, and I wouldn't change it for anything.