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I have a three year-old son named Alexander who’s one hundred percent boy. The other night I was getting him ready for his bath. As soon as I took off his last piece of clothing, he ran away, waving his arms madly and yelling “Look everybody, I’m a naked boy!”

He ran to where his mom was sitting, put his hands on his hips, stuck his little tummy out as far as he could, and shouted “Look Mama, I have fat belly!”

I laughed but quickly realized the joke was on me when he looked my way and with all seriousness finished his thought “…like Daddy”.

{ 8 } Comments

  1. Mom | 26 May, 2007 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    And you used to get naked and run through the house with your hands in the air yelling, “BODY MAN!!”

  2. Bill Higgins | 27 May, 2007 at 12:40 am | Permalink

    Touché

  3. Glen | 30 May, 2007 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    Ah, from the mouths of babes…

    You are, of course, participating in IBM’s Healthy Living Physical Activity program, no?

    Feeling your pain too.
    ;-)

  4. Bill Higgins | 30 May, 2007 at 10:00 am | Permalink

    > You are, of course, participating in IBM’s Healthy Living
    > Physical Activity program, no?

    They don’t set the bar high enough to affect my belly.

  5. James Governor | 1 June, 2007 at 4:29 am | Permalink

    full scale belly laughing, which is appropriate. love your moms comment. my son has some classics- at the moment he likes to say “dirty people”

  6. Patrick Mueller | 1 June, 2007 at 7:21 am | Permalink

    My boys used to run around naked before/after baths yelling “Naked Boy!” like they were some kind of super hero. Actually, I think I got them started on that. Luckily, now, they’ve stopped.

  7. Pam | 4 June, 2007 at 8:00 am | Permalink

    My 2-1/2-year-old son currently has a favorite self-composed song he likes to sing, that goes along the lines of : “Mommy doesn’t have a penis… only boys do…”

  8. Ryan Boyles | 5 June, 2007 at 5:09 pm | Permalink

    my 4 yo son’s variation is chanting “naked butt” and shaking it in some sort of tribal dance move. maybe he’ll be good at DDR? i dunno.

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