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uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

not a parenting story but a babysitting one. i used to be roomies with one of my best friends and her daughter. she had daytime date with her man at the time and asked if i could sit maddy - 4 years old at the time. blond pigtails, red overalls, super cute.

so being that i was kind of an uncle figure i decided to spoil her, taking her toy shopping and to the movies and stuff.

we found ourselves on robson street in vancouver on a summer sunday afternoon. she was tired of walking so she asked "can you give me a shoulder ride?" but with her minor speech impediment she said "shouldaw wide" which was cute as hell.

i hoisted her up and when she sat down she went "oh sean, wedgie! wedgie! put me down!" super loud on a crowded corner.

she's fiddling with the little pants mishap and says, loudly, with a look of total frustration on her face...

"i hate wedgies. i wish i could just FART THEM OUT."

poet13 · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject:

I remember waking up in the philippines oe morning and feeling a little wet on my leg. I looked down and there was a crusty, yellowish ghost in our bed. Our son had tried to mix his own formula. He filled his bottle with water from an outside tap, gettting it all over himself. Then he popped/pried the top off the formula can (almost new). When it came off, I guess it went straight up, cause it came straight down all over him. So when I got him sorted out, he had been scooping formula into his bottle so that it was almost full. The housekeepers had to clean the sheets, the mattress, his clothes, HIM, the floor, adn the wall. THey had to take the bamboo bedframe with all it's nooks and carnnies outside and hose it down. Most of the can (20$) was wasted. Sadly, this happened more than once.

poet13 · Posted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject:

Ah, speaking of wet.
One morning a few months after our son was born, his nanny was changing him. She had laid him on his back on the couch, and was kneeling in front of him. She had the new diaper under him ready to fold over the top. I was sitting on a chair across the room. My wife was in the kitchen. She said something to Jheng, Jheng looked up and opened her mouth to answer, just as our son let go a rather amazing fountain. Yup, he peed in her mouth.