Inked!
I know how tired that whole "From the Mouths of Babes" thing is.
Seriously. Bill Cosby and all of the parenting magazines and blah, blah, blah, my kid said the funniest thing today! Yeesh.
Now that you know that I KNOW, I have to tell you what Harper said.
I know.
Please be aware that although she's nearly three and supposedly has the verbal skills of a six year old (according to a potentially unreliable testing mechanism invented in 1932, yet still utilized by Parents as Teachers), Harper often has trouble getting her mouth to form words correctly.
Scene: Early afternoon in the pediatric eyeglass shop, located on the first floor of St. John's Mercy Medical Center
Background Information: Meredith fell off of a mini-tramp and busted her glasses, so we had to go to the office for an Emergency Repair. I wore my Andrew Bird shirt. Meredith wore a shirt with a cat on it. Harper wore a shirt with a cat on it. I hate dressing them alike, but when one kid wears a cat shirt, it seems that the other wants to as well. Whatever.
The Lady Who Fixed Meredith's Glasses (TLWFMG): Oh! What a BEYOOOOOTIFUL shirt! What IS that on your SHIRT?
(I hate when people talk baby talk to my kids, by the way. So creepy.)
Meredith: It's a cat.
TLWFMG: What a BEAUTIFUL kitty!
Harper: I have a titty tat, too.
TLWFMG: I'm sorry. What do you have?
Harper: I have a titty tat, too.
TLWFMG: You have WHAT kind of tattoo?!
Harper (buying into the misunderstanding): A titty tattoo.
Me: She has a kitty cat, too.
TLWFMG: Oh!!! For a second there I thought--
Me: Yeah. Not until she's 18. Happy Easter.
Submitted by
Erin
at 3/21/2008 8:38:21 PM- I wish my mom had made me wait until I was 18 to get my titty tattoo. It ended up making fourth grade super awkward. You're a good mom.
Submitted by
Jerri Ann
at 3/21/2008 9:28:29 PM- Both of my kids have used those adorable words...and both are supposedly so far advanced..whatever... I thought you were going to say that she was making her say it over and over just to hear her say it...because I do that, and it annoys the hell out of my husband. Especially when my 3 year old wants someone to help him "put his fockin' shoes on" and when someone scrubs their feet on the carpet and touches him, he yells, "you focked me"...I can't help but roll with laughter. We had a titty tat but now we have a titty bear...and I can't help but get him to say it over and over.
Submitted by
gorillabuns
at 3/21/2008 9:36:10 PM- As if you would let your child have a tat on her t**y. Talk about the pain.
For some reason I can't spell the last word.
Submitted by
April
at 3/21/2008 11:23:36 PM- What kind of idiot wouldn't hear "kitty" when a little kid is saying "titty"? Especially when she herself just said "kitty"? *scoffs*
Submitted by
Erica (crummy cupcake)
at 3/22/2008 1:11:23 AM- Laughing my f-ing ass off! I say let that whack job think that you let your pre-schoolers tattoo their genitalia. Maybe ask Meredith to show her show this lady her "private-place" piercing.
What a nut.
Submitted by
Snippety Gibbet
at 3/22/2008 8:26:20 AM- Hehehehehe.......I just conveyed (yelled) the story to the bike mechanic in the garage (aka my boyfriend). We got a kick out of it. ....titty tat...hehehehehehe...
Submitted by
Rebecca
at 3/22/2008 9:33:26 AM- I'm with April: wtf, TLWFMG? As to the titty tat, I wish I didn't have mine. Dangit. Seemed like such a good idea at the time. When I was 18. Which was 20 years ago? WTF! How did that happen.
Submitted by
amanda
at 3/22/2008 11:20:14 AM- When people talk baby talk to my daughter (age 3), I want to poke them in the eye with a tooth pick. She does too. She has red hair, and someone recently asked if it was natural. I told them I wasn't going to let her start coloring her hair until age 4. People are idiots.
Submitted by
Alli
at 3/22/2008 7:13:38 PM- Ditto on what Blackbird said!
Submitted by
islaygirl
at 3/23/2008 1:25:45 AM- my ex speaks to our five-year-old like she's hard of hearing and speaks english as a second language. "AND HOW ARE YOU TODAY? I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU."
When he does this in front of me she'll look at me like, "Is he for real? Are you ~sure~ he's my father?" I just shrug. Along with the tattoos, the things you do when you're young ...
Submitted by
michelle @ the smackdown
at 3/23/2008 8:16:32 PM- man, kids are awesome. i'm definitely gonna have to pick one up one of these days.
Submitted by
SparklieSunShine
at 3/24/2008 10:15:49 AM- Hilarious. I can't stand even hearing people talk to random kids with baby talk so I can't even imagine if they were my kids. Bah!
Submitted by
kimblahg
at 3/25/2008 10:21:13 PM- ah yes, the very colorful eye glass place with the huge scooby doo! i know it well!
Submitted by
MomOnTheGo
at 3/29/2008 7:43:07 AM- We had a presentation about speech therapy at daycare and I mentioned I wondered when we should worry about switched sounds. The daycare teachers asked me what sound I was worried about. I mentioned that Reid also used "t" in place of the hard "c". They looked uncertain and I mentioned the Reid told stories of her 3 titties. They laughed and said, yes, they remembered but it was too common to notice and would probably go away with age.
But foolishness like that of TLWFMG, that lasts a life time.
I'd make that face too. And I'd whisper "asshole."