Friday, January 22, 2010

Tales from the Tub

For those of you readers who are parents, you may agree with me that the best comments from your children often come when they don't know you are listening. Jack and Alex love to play in the tub - bringing into the water an amazing assortment of Playmobil figures, Rescue Heroes, Galactic Hero Star Wars figures, etc. When I'm cleaning up the kitchen after dinner I can hear them in the tub, and the following are two pieces from a recent bathing experience.

To help explain the first tale - we have posted three words (what, want, why) that Jack struggles spelling on the cabinet behind the toilet so he has to read them every time he walks into the bathroom (nifty suggestion from his teacher!). Alex asked Jack to read words posted and then to use “want” in sentence.
Alex: I want you to have fun in tub.
Jack: I want to be part of a zoo.
Alex: I want to have great big poops in my penis

Later from the tub I heard Jack explain the principle of “whoever smelt it dealt it” - a charming phrase I hated in my youth, and still find pretty nasty. Alex was giggling about bubbles in the water and said "Jack! You tooted in the tub! I can smell it!" Jack answers back defiantly "I did NOT. Whoever smelt it, dealt it!" Alex says "huh?" to which Jack seriously explains "Alex, it's like if you smell the stinkiness, it means it really came out of your body." Alex, now informed, says "oh, so it came out of MY butt!"


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