Monday - At least Tadpoles can Swim

[ninanevermore]

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"Hey, Kris," my son asked his babysitter today, "Did you that babies grow up to be people?"

I guess he thinks of babies as being more like dogs or cats. After all, they crawl around on all fours, they pick up your toys and try to put them in their mouths until you yell at them and tell them to stop (and you have to take the toy away when they don't listen), they eat their own special food that is different from everyone else's, and they sometimes make a lot of noise for no good reason.

You have to look it from his point of view: babies, on the face of it, are kind of pointless. They talk, but they don't make any sense. They often smell yucky. Several times a day they scream at the top of their lungs without provocation, but instead of being put in time out for it like would happen to him if he did this, the grownups will pick a baby up and talk in squeaky sing-song voices to it. It's amazing that such silly, useless things will grow up to be people that you can play with and talk to. People who enjoy watching Phineas and Ferb just like he does. To think that every useful, interesting, fun person he knows started out as one of these things: a stupid little baby! I can see how it boggles his mind.



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Comments

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

He might have a point.

[rottzilla069.livejournal.com]

I love, love, LOVE this post!!!

And on that note, I hate the smell of babies. Regardless of what condition their diapers are in.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

It is pretty amazing, isn't it?

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

I actually like the smell of a clean baby; it reminds me of the smell of a puppy, but fainter, and I could sniff puppies all day long. Well, clean puppies, at least. I know that the scent does nothing for some people, though. :)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

:)