Words

I made a mistake a week and a half ago.  It was a big one.  I don't know how long I'll be dealing with the consequences of my words.  It could be a long, long, long, long time.

You see we went to the park a week and a half ago.  I watched the kids from the car because I needed to nurse the baby.  I saw Captain Kindergarten hovering around a Mom sitting on a bench watching her own child.  I was really afraid that my kid was being that kid at the park.  You know the kid that comes over to unsuspecting moms and chats their ears off with a dogged persistence that makes a Mom wish her kid would run over and say she's gotta go potty so that the mom has to declare, "Well, it's time to go home."  But he wasn't being that kid, I found out he was actually being that kid.  As in that kid that notices you have a dog and cannot, absolutely can-not, leave the poor critter alone.  It was a chocolate lab.

When we were all strapped back into the mini-van, Captain Kindergarten informed me that when he is allowed to get a pet, he wants a chocolate lab.  I thought that was a fine idea and just because the thought was dancing around in my head, I put out there that a dog I'd really like to have is a golden retriever.  Sidekick Sister, who couldn't even say retriever, became adamant that we should get the golden retriever and not the chocolate lab.  This did not sit well with Captain Kindergarten who became vehement that we were getting a chocolate lab.  

Ummmmmm....not a decision we need to make today kiddios.  This whole dog discussion is entirely hypothetical.  As your mother I intend to say "someday" to a dog for a good many more days.

Right when I thought my head was going to pop off from the inanity of the argument, Captain Kindergarten pulled the switch on the rail line and said, "Hey, how about we get a poodle?"

And his sister was like, "Yeah!"

So they were agreeing and I could have just let it go, but my mouth started talking and it said, "You don't want a poodle."  And my mind was thinking, "you don't want a poodle because they are a little dog, a silly  dog, a prissy dog, a dog that will most assuredly want to hang out inside, a dog that will think that it is better than all of us."

But when they said, "Why?" a whim struck me and I said, "Because it has the word poo in it."  That struck my audience as extremely funny.  Oh man was that kind of humor right up their alley.  They laughed, repeated it, laughed and repeated it some more.  That was my mistake you see.

The poo humor, Sidekick Sister was born loving it.  I'm not a natural to it.  I used to be too embarrassed to say the word shampoo out loud because it has the word poo in it.  But Sidekick Sister will randomly ask me in a day with a sly giggle in her voice, "Mom, can we get a poodle?"  And she makes me say it.  She makes me say, "No."  And then she'll say, "Why?"  And she makes me say it again.  And if I don't say it, she'll say it, "Because it has the word poo in it!"  And she'll laugh and laugh all over again.  One of those real, genuine, rolling laughs.

I don't know folks.  I don't know how long my mistake is going to haunt me.  It's impoosible to tell.  Poobably a long time.  It's impoobable it will be leaving our home anytime soon.  Oh poo!