January 24, 2004

Animal Crackers in My Poop

animal-crackers Every parent has a list of sayings. You know, the cute little words or phrases your children have spoken. Some of them occurring at the most inopportune times. Others, just as sweet and precious as a new little puppy or kitten - at least to the parent.

Memorable sayings in our house:

Babe-ing suit

Bessert (but not strawberry shortcake, thank you, but no.)

Wizard B Oz

Pie-weena (hyena) - which begat peena-weena

Racote (pronounced RAH-CO-TEE) - you know...a raccoon-coyote hybrid. Still not sure how that one came about other than complete confusion on the part of a small child.

Globus (glahb-is) - God Bless

Toys, ready to strike! - From a Croc Hunter toy that really said "poised, ready to..."

Boo-prise!

The other night, as I was getting clothes and other things together, I caught a snippet of my son's singing in the shower. I thought I heard the words "animal crackers in my poop."

I stopped. I snickered.

"Rex, what are you singing?"

And he sang, "Animal crackers in my soup. Monkeys and lions loop-de-loop..."

"Oh. I thought you said 'poop.' You know, instead of soup."

He thought that was hysterical. Giggling ensued.

Of course, this is the same child who proclaimed his dinner of chicken noodle soup and a quesadilla "splendid!"

You never know with kids. He could have been saying that. They have their own way of hearing things. When they regurgitate it for your listening pleasure (or if you just happen to overhear it), you pretty much never know what to expect. Especially from a kid under 10. Especially, something with the word "poop." I mean, potty humor's big with them. Okay, it's big with just about everyone, but under the age of 10, it has the smack of scandal to it.

I'm certain there are a million other things my children have uttered and which I found completely entertaining and precious. Unfortunately, my memory isn't what it was 5 minutes ago. Makes it difficult to remember....well, whatever it was I had been talking about.

Still, I liked the idea of him singing "animal crackers in my poop".....the visual was just so........uh......er.....not PLEASING to the mind's eye, but definitely something I could imagine - vividly. And, it would have been much more creative than any Spongebob Poopypants songs he'd made up in the past.

Posted by DaGoddess at January 24, 2004 10:04 AM
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Too cute. I've been through several iterations of these...creative preschool syntax manglings. Lovable every time. They eventually seep into family lore so that years later when parents and older sibs use constructions like "my do it" (I'm quite capable of performing this task without assistance Father.) it serves as a rich source of embarassment to now pubescent child.

(Daddy. Can you spell "run on sentence"?)

Posted by: Ed at January 24, 2004 11:57 AM

My daughter ("Twisty" on my blogroll) used to refer to "Pepsi" as "Pepsiday," from the jingle that ended with the words, "Have a Pepsi Day."

I still call the stuff "Pepsiday."

Posted by: Jim - Parkway Rest Stop at January 24, 2004 12:38 PM

Mom arrived with Christmas cookies, including gingerbread men. My son opened the tin, and squealed "Look! Grammaw made some black snowmen!" (Mama never was very good about watching the timer, bless her heart.)

Then there the black widow spiders. He somehow misheard me telling him to stay away from black widow spiders, they were poisonous. He heard "black Woodrows". (He had an Uncle Woodrow.)

Posted by: SwampWoman at January 24, 2004 04:43 PM

I still call Spiderman "Bee-Cee Man". I'm not sure why my son called him that, but it just stuck. Another favorite, since he wasn't allowed to say "Shut up" was "Say no words!"

My little literalist.

Posted by: rita at January 25, 2004 06:24 AM