Stuck Under a Baby

Tag: potty humor

  • Mama Foofed!

    My daughter, Bear, had quite a vocabulary by 17 months of age.  At 17 1/2 months, she was trying to put two words together, but they were often separated by a very large pause as she tried to connect the two ideas in her head.

    One evening a few weeks ago, I took Bear upstairs to put her to bed.  I decided that it would be best to go to the bathroom before getting stuck under a baby for the next hour or so.  I happened to, well, um, pass some gas, which my family has given the endearing term “foofing.”  It wasn’t a remarkable foof (rhymes with hoof) or anything – just your average, every day, run of the mill foof.

    Bear giggled.  “Foof!” she exclaimed.  And she laughed some more.  “Mama!”

    “Yes, honey, Mama foofed.  Excuse me.”

    “Foof… … … Mama… … … Mama… … … Foof… … … Foof… … … Mama… … … Foof.”

    “Yes, Bear, Mama foofed.”

    “Mama… Foof.  Foof.  Foof.  Mama… Foof.”

    “I know, love.  Mama foofed.”

    “Mama foof!”

    Her first true sentence.

    “Mama foof!  Mama foof!  Mama foof!”

    “Yeah, I know.  Mama foofed.  That’s enough now.  Time for bed.”

    2013-03-17 Mama foofI brought her into the bedroom and began nursing her down for the night.  She got drowsy and I thought that she was nearing sleep.  All of a sudden, she popped off, sat up, and yelled, “MAMA FOOF!”

    She was so proud.

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    Note: Since that day, Bear has made sure to report everyone’s foofs – mine, her Papa’s, Monkey’s, and even her own.  No one can escape.  And it is now impossible to blame your foof on the baby.  Perhaps we should reconsider getting a dog…

     

  • Potty Mouth

    Blog 02-04-2012 edMost parents cannot wait to hear their precious baby utter his or her very first word.  Mama or Papa would be the preferred choice, of course, but there are also many other acceptable selections like cat or car or bye-bye.  I think I can safely say that booger, tush, peepee, and butt are not amongst them.

    Poop is going to be my daughter’s first word.  I just know it.  She is only four months old now, but the words mentioned above are the most commonly spoken in my household by my almost three year old son (who, mind you, has recently changed his name to Poophead).  Initially, I tried to avoid the potty humor.  Then, I tried not to encourage it.  However, I found it very difficult to not laugh because, well, let’s face it, these words are pretty funny.  Who hasn’t laughed at a good fart joke sometime in his/her life?

    I have come to accept potty humor as a normal stage of development in toddlerhood.  I can even appreciate my son’s creativity and his ability to change lyrics of his favorite songs, for example, “The wheels on the tush go ‘Poop, poop, poop,’” and “A, B, C, D, E, F, Butt!”  He has even taken to composing original works!  The lullaby he wrote tonight (and then had his father and me sing to him before bed) went something like this: “Booger, butt, booger, butt, booger, butt all day!” Repeat until the giggles stop.

    I do look forward to my daughter learning to speak (though I’m in no rush), but I dread having to write in her baby book that her very first spoken word was related to fecal matter or some other bodily function.  Butt, we’ll just have to wait and see.

     

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