It was T-Bot who noticed it. Quite frankly, I had not paid much attention to the product, let alone the packaging.

This is Freddy Flamingo, as featured on the front of a packet of Huggies Flushable Moist Wipes.

” Hey Mommy,” remarked the T-Bot, “they want us to go potty in a flamingo!”.

Then, obviously finding the idea more funny than gross, he jumped around for a while, giggling and mumbling in that six-year-old-boy fashion,

“potty in a flamingo! potty in a flamingo! ha-herrr! ha-herr! (snort)”

I know you can buy potty chairs and such with cat decals and giraffe spots and hippo faces but they are, you know, just decoration. Am I alone in finding Potty Flamingo a little disturbing?

I am so, so sorry.

I just can’t help it.

I just keep thinking of Freddy Flamingo, doing what flamingos do. Standing on one leg. Stalking through the reeds. Dipping his beak in the water. Preening his back. And … sloshing.