if you were a fly on the wall of our house this past week, here are some of the things you might have heard. (WARNING: some material has mature content).
LILY (to me, as i'm changing jake's diaper and getting him dressed for school): "Mommy, what kind of bummy does jacob have?"
ME: "What?"
LILY: "Does he have a peanut?"
ME: (finally understanding) "It's actually called a _______, but you can call it peanut if you'd like."
LILY: "Daddy, Evan and Japie have peanuts. Mommy, Gigi and Lily have bummies."
nothing earthshattering in this conversation; just thought it was cute. i have no idea where lily got the word, peanut, but it works for me. when grace was little i had been told to teach your kids correct terms. then there was the day that we are walking into a preschool for my nephew's "graduation" ceremony, and gracie is yelling: "mommy, my underwear is up my v____!" i responded by saying in a prim and proper voice: "gracie, the correct way to say that is: 'i have a wedgie.'" emily post would be so proud! since then i don't hide the correct term from my kids, but i'm certainly fine with ample use of nicknames for private parts. with lily, i've tried to refer to everything in that area as bummy. i'm not sure how well that will work with evan.
[LOTS OF AIR POPPING NOISES] as Pat tries to squeeze the last of the honey unto his sandwich. Gracie and I happen to be standing near him.
ME: "Excuse you, Pat!"
GRACIE: (after much thought) "Or maybe that was the honey!"
LILY: (at the dinner table) "Why is evan eating?"
PAT: "Why are you eating?"
LILY: "Because i'm hungry and my bummy is telling me it wants food."
maybe i need to scale back on referring to the mid-section of the body as "bummy"??
ME: (to Pat) "You don't agree with me?"
PAT: "No"
ME: "Well, ...i agree with myself."
(i have no recollection of what we were talking about.)
ME: (lamenting) "Where has my baby gone?"
8 years ago
10 comments:
Lily…she is such a cutie, always makes me laugh! :)
P.S. I am wondering about the same thing… should I teach my kid the correct terms, or just the “nicknames”?
Oh, and Gracie, that was the honey dear...
Your agreement conversation with Pat reminds me of something I would say to Fiel. I've never heard the term"bummies" before-very original!
so funny! and thats only the stuff you remember. oh to be a fly on your wall. i can so imagine you responding in exactly that way as you corrected gracie. hilarious.
I can't decide which conversation I like better! These are so great. I would LOVE to be a fly on your walls!!
Hilarious! Thanks for the chuckles, I loved it! I also agree with myself on a regular basis... I'm so with you on this one!
I believe in teaching correct names as well, however I have had some embarrassing moments too! Let me just say we were in an airplane and there was no chance of escape.
I love the conversations, I always think I will never forget and then I eventually do, it's great you write them down.
Okay, this post is killing me. I have my own Avery/private parts terminology stories. Two I will never forget. They are too funny. I love what Lily said. I think I'll have to email you Avery's -- at around 2-1/2 she got into 'nicknaming' and shortening the terms...soo funny.
April, that agreement conversation...I can hear your voice in my head as I'm reading it and I almost fell off my chair with laughter!
April!! So fun to find your blog! Long time no see. This post made me LOL big time! The husband thinks I'm crazy! You never failed to crack me up, and now you can keep doing it! Wahoo!
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