Potty Parts and Monsters
Posted by Ryan Woods
Jones has a monster that Jess made for him. Until today he always just called it "montner". But this morning I asked him if his monster had a name. Jones quickly responded with "Boo". Surprised by his quick reply I confirmed his answer "your monsters name is boo?" "yes" he said.
The strange thing that kept coming up in my head is that he's never really encountered the word "boo". He pretty much made it up out of the clear blue. Now I understand that kids make words and stuff up often, but it's usually based in some sort of reality, idea, experience or something. Boo just seemed very random.
Let me quickly go off topic by saying that we've chosen not to use fake words for our private parts in our family. I could go into detail as to why we've chosen to do this, but that is for another blog. We do have purposeful reasoning for it though. Anyway, so Jones calls them what they are...and he's quite obsessed with pointing them out any time he sees one.
Well when Jess got up this morning I told her about Jones' new name for his monster. And it was at that exact moment that I realized the misunderstanding. You see, Jones doesn't say "boob" very well. Instead he says "boo". And through a series of rigorous test we confirmed the fact that Jones did not name his monster Boo, no, he named it Boob. My son has a monster named Boob.
Jess and I have chosen to continue to call the monster Boo...though on some level I hope that Boob sticks. Are we bad parents?
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