The other day I was folding laundry (it’s an exciting life I lead… us sahm live like rock stars. Gage and Carter light a candle and chant my name whenever I wash their underwear and athletic cups… I demand it) and Ryerson came tearing into my bedroom.
“Mommy, LOOK! These are my nuts!”
I started laughing and turned around with a semi-straight face, prepared to tell him to try and come up with something that sounded a little nicer than “nuts” (because isn’t that something that a responsible parent would do? I wouldn’t know… when Ryerson was younger Mark and I would try and get him to say the word ta-tas, just because we thought it was funny) and completely forgot what I was going to say.
“Honey, those aren’t your nuts. That’s your side.”
“NO IT ISN’T! THESE ARE MY NUTS!”
I don’t know where he got it into his head that his “nuts” are four inches above his hip bone, but nothing I said could convince him otherwise… finally I gave up and told him to go watch Spongebob (at that point I needed the distraction… his voice had gradually risen with every denial that his nuts weren’t a little further south than where he was pointing. I figured it wasn’t worth worrying about… he’s gonna figure it out someday).
Thank God for cable.
PS I guess I need to have a talk with Gage and Carter about the language they use around Ryerson. “Nuts” somehow doesn’t seem so bad when it’s coming out of the mouth of a 12 or 9 year old boy, but when it’s a 3 year old… I don’t know, it sounds wrong somehow. In spite of that, I guess “nuts” doesn’t seem so bad when I consider the fact that Ryerson was playing Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on the computer this morning and yelled, “YOU SUCK!” when Mickey Mouse refused to give him another prize. I didn’t even touch that one… Mickey Mouse does kinda suck.
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ROFLMAO the “you suck” to mickey really got me!! It could be worse, my 3yr/o says D***it at the drop of a hat!! I can’t get him to stop!! But I guess that is all my fault cause that is my favorite word! Opps, bad mommy!! LOL
In the bathtub last night my three year old was pulling his junk out as far as it would go and saying, “Look! It’s a volcano!”
PS. Totally not you I was referring to in my last post. Honest.
Mickey does suck! You tell him Ryerson!
LOL.. Your older boys need to make sure that they atleast tell him where his nuts are, if they are going to make references to nuts around him.
Adorably hilarious. There have been use of the word ‘wang’ here a couple of times. It just makes me giggle too much to correct the boy yet. Now I just think he uses the word when he wants to make me laugh.
Sounds like my house! Yesterday I actually used the word “nuts” when my boys asked what was hanging from a trailer hitch on the back of a truck. You know those disgusting things grown men put on there trucks(might be a Texas thing). Instead of saying scrotum, I put it in terms they would understand, “Nuts”!!!!
Oh dear…at least he isn’t using the F word. Yet. Oh, and nuts is so much better than a 3 year old saying, “Mommy, these are my testicles.”
These are my nuts! If I had a dime for every time my husband says that ….I don’t know, I’d probably have about a buck forty. Thanks for the laugh!!
My husband and his friend constantly say My BallZ about everything drives me crazy..lol Very funny!
Kirst
I don’t think “nuts” is that bad! Quincy says, “These are my balls.” Sometimes he also says “balls” for no good reason. I have trouble keeping a straight face.:)
Oh. My. God. I can’t quit laughing…
you are so freakin’ funny (and so are your kids:)). Thanks for providing some levity to my day!
I wonder if daughters provide the same amount of laugh therapy related to genitalia?
LMAO! I’ll never forget when my oldest was toilet training he got underwear with the characters from Toy Story on them. Picture my red face when he pulled his pants down to show everyone at preschool his Woody!! No wonder I’v got so many grey hairs!
OMG that is too funny! You’ve been commenting on my blog so I wanted to come return the favor and boy am I ever glad I did! Yer very funny.
I loved this post!
Hi! Thank you for stopping by The Short Bus earlier! It’s nice to meet you!!
My son would flip out over your website – he LOVES the “crazy squirrel” from Ice Age. He’s 4 and he’s totally addicted to the computer games on the pbs website as well as noggin/nickelodeon! He just sits there and hollers when he gets stuck, though. He doesn’t verbalize as well as Ryerson!
Thank GOD my husband knows where his nuts are. Since he’s in a house full of females and one emasculated terrier, I was afriad he’d forgotten!
Ha! I’m back baby!
LOL!! Hilarious! Where do they get those ideas?? And how do they just stop believing their parents at age 3??? Funny, my latest post is about my 3 year old insisting that red is blue and blue is red.