I spent five minutes the other night laughing my ass off over this.
For Easter I got the kids a set of window markers. You can use them to color/draw on glass and it is washable so it wipes right off with a wet cloth. Day before yesterday was the first time they'd played with them. When I was showing the markers to them I picked up one and wrote the first thing that popped into my head, which, because I am apparently still 12 years old, was "poop." Then I went away and left them to their coloring.
I hadn't paid any attention to their "artwork" until later that night when I went in to feed the bunny. Upon closer inspection I found the following inscriptions in Madalyn's writing:
Madalyn is a poopy.
JZ is a poop.
Mom is a poop.
Dad is a poop.
And me, being the cracker-jack parent I am, stood out there laughing hysterically over it. Probably I should've been horrified or disgusted or something but it just cracked me up. I guess if she'd just written that one of us was a poop I'd have taken it more personally, but, I mean, she included herself in it, as well, so I can hardly take offense to that. Plus, ahem....who gave her the idea to writ it in the first place? Physician, heal thyself.
Sometimes I wonder whose idea it was to give me two children to raise.
Posted by Mary at April 19, 2006 12:49 PM
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haha! I would have taken a picture!
Posted by: Sarah at April 19, 2006 05:44 PM
Is a "poopy" a diminutive "poop"? A more active "poop"?
I love your sense of humor about raising your kids Mary. They will be wonderfully well-grounded when they grow up.
Posted by: Rosemary at April 21, 2006 07:10 AM
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Sweetie! That is a sign you're a great mom. Want to hear Sam's proposition for family fun this morning? "We're all going to show our butts, and then we're all going to sing the Big Butts song." Poop and butts are the cornerstone of childhood humor, and Ben and I are happy to play along! (For the record, we did NOT all show our butts, although we did sing the song.)
Posted by: Gretchen at April 19, 2006 01:26 PM