Feb 18 2009
The Moon is Made of Cheese
I’ve been doing a lot of preaching, ranting, and opinionating lately. I know what you’re thinking…blah blah blah.
Today I thought I would make a confession.
I think I’m raising a flasher. 
What’s this, you say? The one who claims to know everything and is so busy being morally superior to the rest of us… is raising a future streaker? For shame!
**I don’t really think these things, but as I have reread some of my posts, it sure sounds like I talk that way. What can I say??? I’m passionate!
Yes, I’m afraid it’s true. However, I won’t take full responsibility for my son’s new found desire to show his hiney to anyone with eyeballs. I blame his girlfriend.
Yes, my son has a girlfriend. He’s a regular ladies man. He’s pretty much the cutest little boy ever, and I say that as a matter of fact. Everyone who has seen him agrees. I mean just look at those eyes! Can you blame the girls for swooning at the sight of him?
For a while, there was a little toddler love triangle going on with the aforementioned girl, my son, and another little boy in his class. My son seems to have won her heart.
Now this little girl is destined to be a stripper. She likes to work it. I’m not sure who’s teaching her this stuff, but I’m sure it’s meant to be innocent and funny. It’s really cute to see a little 2 year old blond girl sashay in a belly shirt and shake her booty, but I’m pretty sure that will backfire eventually. But who am I to judge.
Anyway, she’s the one I credit with teaching my son this new little trick. He certainly didn’t learn it from me.
Whenever he’s sure he has an audience, Kiddo stands up with a huge grin on his face. If you’re a parent, you know this grin. The cat just swallowed the bird.
He raises his eyebrows a few times. Ok I admit…we taught him the eyebrow trick.
He turns and looks back coyly over his shoulder. He places a hand on his hip, one finger tucked in his pants, almost absently. You would never guess he placed it there on purpose.
He bats his eyes, works the eyebrows a couple more times and says:
“Would you like to see my tooshie?”
Almost instantly, his strategically placed hand has tugged down one side of his pants and pull-ups. In a flash, his other hand follows with the other side, and his audience is treated to a full baby moon.
Being the good parents we are, always on the lookout for behavior we need to avoid and lessons to be taught, what do we do? We laugh. We weren’t thinking. We were just startled, and we couldn’t help ourselves! It just sorta burst out.
My hubby and I looked at each other, and we realized simultaneously the monster we just created. We tried to backpedal quickly. “No no, kiddo. We don’t want to show people your tooshie.”
Yeeeaaahhh…that didn’t work. He recognized our backpedal efforts. He now knows what he has discovered and the power he now has.
So if you see an adorable little 2 year old and even stop to smile, beware. That’s all the opener my kiddo needs to bare a cheek or two, and likely not the one you’re expecting. I apologize in advance. What’s a momma to do.
It’s cute, and funny. I love how our kids do things to surprise us and make us laugh.
Or embarrass the crap out of us…but what can ya do.
LOL–at least he won’t be shy.
Davida
That was so cute. Now you need to catch it on video to use as blackmail when he’s a teenager.
lol, aw, a little moon never hurt anyone. My son likes to flash the full frontal at his sisters, yikes. It doesn’t help that he still wears a diaper, so if he rips that sucker off and then his bladder lets go…well, we’re looking at a slip hazard. Keep and eye on your boy and the stripper in training, she sounds like a bad influence.
Oh, good idea DNC! I can whip out that puppy when he brings home his first girlfriend!
Oh, you’re in for it. My son did that (and still runs to the bathroom with his pants at half mast - no false modesty for him), but now it’s the frontal nudity he prefers.
Try not to laugh the first time he does THAT.