Archive for March, 2009

Every parent of a toddler has gone through this stage, heard these comments & laughed as we have.  I hope this is a fun reminder for those past this stage, something to look forward to for those not there, and a good chuckle for those who haven’t parented.  (I also hope Charlie will see the humor in this post once he’s old enough to care to search through the loveoirs archives and read it.)

One of yesterday’s diaper changing conversations

Charlie: “Penis, mama!”

Me: “Yes, that’s your penis.”

Charlie: “Mama doesn’t have a penis.”

Me: “Nope, I don’t.  I’m a girl.  Boys have penises, girls have vaginas.”  (By now you get that we aren’t into the nicknames…just call them what they are!)

Charlie: “Girls have tiny penises.”

I busted up laughing, so I imagine he’ll say this again.  Oops.  Hopefully it won’t be at some fancy party.  We have so many of those to attend, you know.

Naked Playtimes

“Look, mama!  Charlie’s penis in the choo choo.”  And yes, I find him doing just such with a toy train car.

Potty Fun

After Charlie uses his little potty he gets to use toilet paper and put it in the big potty, with a final reward of getting to flush.  Lately he’s been saying “toilet paper going down the big white slide!”

In addition to reading his own memorized version of Big Red Barn tonight, Charlie requested that the following be healed tonight during our bedtime prayer:

• Papa, Mama
• Pawpaw, Mimi
• Grandmaw, Grandpaw
• Grammy Ellen, Grandpaw Jud
• Uncle Steve
• kitty cat
• monkey
• dinosaur
• light
• bed
• Uncle Steve’s bed
• Mama and Papa’s bed
• Elvis (his sock monkey)
• choo choo
• a few other things I didn’t understand

Given that the incantation probably would have gone on into the night had there been more time, consider yourself prayed for and healed.