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It Really is Great Being so Fascinating

This morning I had to pump some milk because Bobby and I actually have a date tonight (woot! woot!) and Sophia will need a bottle while we’re out. So, I hauled out the ol’ Medela Pump-n-Style and hooked myself up. Soon Joshua wandered up to take a look at the action. He’s always fascinated when I pump, and sometimes when I nurse Sophie, he says, “Are you gonna pump some milk?” and is always rather disappointed when I answer in the negative. Today, however, was his lucky day and he got a great dose of pumping excitement. He leaned in for a bird’s-eye view, let out a loud gasp, and exclaimed, “Mommy! Your private parts is moving!”

I burst out in an uncontrollable fit of giggles. He started laughing because I was laughing. “You’re right. The pump is making them move,” I explained.

Eventually he grew bored watching and went to play with his trains like a normal child (shew!), but when I was done he came back to watch me de-tangle myself from the apparatus. “Mommy!” he cried, “Your private parts are not moving anymore! (Pause, concerned look, pause), “It doesn’t hurt does it?”

Awww, genuine concern! I’m so glad to know he actually cares about me and isn’t just using me for entertainment!

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Throwback Thursday: Strawberry Shortcake Girls

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This is Emily and me around Christmas 1980 when I was three and she was about a year-and-a-half. This picture is infamous in our family because it’s the only formal one Em and I ever had taken together. In February 1981, her sister Anna came along and ruined it all for me. I didn’t have any sisters so that was the end of me getting my pic taken in matching outfits! THANKS ANNA, GEEZ!! Actually when we were little, Emily and I used to tease Anna for not being in it. Then a few years ago, when Strawberry Shortcake came back into fashion, I bought the three of us Strawberry Shortcake shirts for Christmas and we took a snapshot so we could finally all be in a picture together with matching outfits. Somehow, it wasn’t as cute as I imagined it would be, which is why I’m not posting it here!

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The Itsy-Bitsy Lyricist

Joshua is a boy tied to his routines, and at naptime and bedtime said routine includes singing, in this order, The Wheels on the Bus, Itsy-Bitsy Spider, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. He is also super-silly and he loves to insert nonsense words into the songs. For instance, last night, he sang, with giggles and gusto, “Twinkle, twinkle, little BLAG!” Blag is one of his favorite made-up words. But tonight, he “made up” (at least I really HOPE he made it up!) a new one. I had to interrupt our bedtime singing when he sang, “The wheels on the bus go round and round. All through the BOOBIE!”

Uh-oh.

Me: Joshua, did you say boobie?
Joshua: Yes.
Me: Honey, do you know what that means?
Joshua: No.
Me: Don’t say that, ok? It’s not a nice word.

“The wheels on the bus go round and round, all thru the…”

Joshua: Mommy, what does boobie mean?
Me: It’s another word for private parts.
Joshua: Ohhhhhhh! Now I understand!

“The wheels on the bus go round and round, all thru the BLEEG!”

I had to hold my laughter in until he was tucked in tight and I was in the hallway. I love his funny words but I hope he keeps picking bleeg over boobie when he’s making them up in the near future. If he starts singing “Itsy-Bitsy Vajayjay”, however, I am going to get very suspicious!

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