Latest parenting quote from sis

Sis is sleepy, since her cherub woke her at 5:30 even though they could have all happily slept in.

Lying lying on his bed, she calls me, from where she's intermittently moaning because she's so tired, playing with him, cuddling when he will, making sure he doesn't fall and break open his head or experience some other similarly inadvisable tragedy. And she's filling me in on his week. On the things he did this week. Among them, he's learning his colors. And he can now identify yellow, thanks to a set of "Cars" books Grandma and Grandpa bought him. So sitting at the counter eating a banana this week, he held it away from him, and declared, "Nana's yellow!" Brilliant, brilliant baby.

But that wasn't the point of this rambly Saturday morning post. The point was to tell you the quote, which emerged from some other things he did this week that you don't really want to read about. Trust me. So here it is:

It's funny how so much of parenting is wrapped up in getting up close and personal with the bodily fluids of another human being.

Another good one for the birth control crowd, as far as I'm concerned... 

Comments

[Heather]

Sis is absolutely right. An interesting addendum to her insight might be that once the child reaches a certain age,the same bodily substances become just as grody as anyone else's. I think it's evolutionary, in the sense that it would be hard to let your children grow up and leave the house if they still had the "baby smell". I remember being mournful when my boys lost the "baby smell" sometime in grade school. I still miss it.

[Tamara]

I remember "baby smells". I used to love snuggle close to their necks and lets the sent of baby soothe away all the worries of the outside world. Now I run around reminding my son "you need to wear deodorant because if you don't you'll stink by the end of the day". Its funny how we mark the passages of time.