Thinking back to when I was younger I remember saying at least once to my parents, "Your embarassing me!". Being a mom I have finally realized why they do it! It's payback for all of those times when we were kids when we embarassed the crap out of them!
I'm sure I have enough embarassing stories to fill this entire page, but I want to share one with you that could possibly be the most embarassing thing that will ever happen to me, but even so, as completely embarassed as I was, looking back I can still laugh at it.
My 2 1/2 year old son is learning his words, different words for different things, everything has a different word and sometimes two alike things have different words. He used to always point to the clock on the wall when he was a baby and ask "whats that?" so I'd always tell him it was a clock. He got so used to it that he started calling watches clocks. Although being a young boy, he isn't that great with pronouncment yet, he tends to add letters to words or leave them out altogether.
So one day, when we was about 2, we are walking down the mall and he sees a big sign with a watch outside the jewlery store, he looks at me and says "cock mommy" and I of course say "yes baby that's a clock, its a small clock called a watch, its smaller than the big clock we have on the wall at home". He seems pretty content with that and so we continue down the mall. Suddenly he gets really excited, waving and pointing to this man walking towards us and screams "mommy, look a big cock!!!" - he was pointing to the guys watch! The guy looked at me and I could feel the heat starting in my face, Im sure I could have fainted right there. All I could say was "no honey that's not a clock, its a watch" loud enough that the man could hear
and keep walking. But if that wasn't bad enough, after getting our groceries, the man ended up in line right behind us. I was completely mortified.
But I think what is even harder, is trying not to laugh at them without them seeing me do it. There are times when my sons do something and as a mom, I know it's something that they shouldn't but it is just so darn funny that I actually have to turn around and stiffle a laugh or cover my mouth with my hand so that he won't see it and continue the behavior that I usually know he shouldn't continue. Like the time when my sons use of the word “fridge” sounded like “b*tch” and he ran toward the fridge while screaming, “Open the b*tch, Open the b*tch.” or about the time we are driving down the road and I about died when out of nowhere he yells “LOOK MOMMY! A F*CK A F*CK!!”, it was only after a few stunned moments that I realized a semi was driving past us and he was refering to the "Truck".
Sometimes its not even what they say but it's the determination and the defiance on their faces. I mean how do you not laugh when your two year old storms out of the room and says”I am mad at you mommy!” with this complete straight face for something so trivial as putting his spoon in the sink instead of letting him do it himself? or the time when we are driving around town and nana decides to pull into the wrong lane and my sister says "geez mom!" and the entire hour drive home my son is saying "geez mom!" for anything that I'm saying!
There is always humor in your life if you are willing to look for it. Sometimes it can be really hard to find. But I have found that with my two little boys, my life is pretty funny, they make my life a lot more funnier than it would be otherwise! And I don't think I'd have it any other way! :)
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