September 9, 2008

Last night Coop ate bacon and eggs with pear for dinner. After dinner, I put him in the bath tub to bathe him. He always likes to play a little while with horses in the tub so I let him play. I heard him from the living room say, “WOW that was a big tootie!” When I went back in the bathroom to bathe him, he looked up at me and asked, “Mommy, do tooties go all the way down to your toes?” I had to ask twice to make sure what he was saying ….. so after his repeating himself, I answered, “No, Coop. Tooties don’t go all the way to your toes.” Now you can almost guess what the next question was: “Mommy, where do tooties go?” “Coop, tooties go to your booty.” “Where do tooties come from?” “When you eat, sometimes it makes bubbles in your tummy and the bubbles are tooties. The tooties go from your tummy to your booty and that is why you have tootoes in your booty.” He accepted that and began singing, “I got tooties in my booty, I got tooties in my booty…..” I laughed so hard and thought to myself how important it is to explain even the simplest of processes …..