Because

In the past two years we have often enjoyed taking a group shower in our big box double shower. We have two showers and a separate sprayer. It has turned bath time into family time on many occasions. Ev loves to slide around on the marble tile like a slip and slide, although we outlawed running starts from the get-go. But he has had a lot of fun in the shower and we have had a lot of fun with him. And when you're tired and dirty there's no better way to get his bath done along with your own.

It's all been good until he started noticing things about Mom. Like what we have that she doesn't, and what she has that we don't. Now we've never been modest about being undressed around Ev but always kind of figured there would come a time when his interest becomes just a bit too intrusive for comfort.

Well, we're there. Just a bit too much stooping and staring and reaching. A bit too much laughter and not enough academics in his approach. So tonight we had to drop the bomb: No. We cannot take a group shower tonight. "Just you and Dad tonight. Mom's not going to do that anymore." "Why?"

Ever remember your mom answering a question with that one word that was simultaneously both absolute and perfectly evasive? "Because."