Oh oh...

It didn't take much imagination to figure out what Jayden was up to - the grin says it all! His mother has been lamenting why it is that a boy can charge right past the bathroom door, literally 3 feet from the back porch door, on his way outside - and make a beeline to the nearest bush (about 6 feet from the back door) and do a whiz as quick as you can say "zipper". Or be walking casually down the drive way, detour-upzip-whiz-zipup-back on track with hardly missing a beat - until he saw mom peering horrified out the office window. Big grin and shrug...
The problem is, they are so danged cute and "innocent" about the whole thing, you have to laugh.

But there CAN be consequences. The morning after Max and Jayden "watered the tree", this is what greeted me as I stepped out the back door.

I know my jaw dropped.
There's man power. There's mom power. And then there's PEE power. Whoeee.
This tree is at least 50 years old, probably much more. Brought to earth by such ignominy.
The punks look at it as a whole new playground. At some point we are going to have to give them the other version of " fun with the tree" - cutting it up for firewood. And when it comes time to cut and split that section of trunk closest to the ground, I'm staying far, far away. I don't know if residual fumes are still lingering, it may be like kryptonite. Gramma Power may not be enough. I'm not taking any chances.

We'll let the power-of-pee crew handle that job.

In answer to the question "why" do they do it? Because they CAN, that's why.