Testicles

A while ago, Joshua asked me how he was born and if the doctors had to cut me open. This is what I told him: "I went to the hospital complaining of stomach pains and the doctors gave me the news that I was the host of an alien parasite. They cut me open and all this black ooze came out, but the doctors reassured me that if I meticulously fed this parasite, he would become a boy. Sure enough I fed the ooze and it became Joshua. All that is left of the parasite is this patch of black on your head, which Cameron doesn't have because he is not an alien." You guys should have seen his eyes when I told him the story.

So tonight in the bathtub, Joshua told me something a parent of a boy never wants to hear: "Mommy, I am missing one of my testicles! I think I am really an alien." He enlisted me to help him find his missing testicle. Yes, we did find it. Phew! Cameron and Joshua then spent the rest of bath time inspecting each other's testicles. I told them to be gentle handling each other's packages. "Why?" Joshua asked. Uhhh...I didn't know what to tell him so I said, "It will help you grow into a man." To my surprise, Joshua said, "I don't want to grow up, so I am going to squeeze them harder." Uhhh...Don't do that....uhhh..."When you get older, it will give you super powers" was my scary explanation. At least he stopped.

Before you judge, I spent the morning explaining to Joshua about the economy and the significance of Obama getting elected as president of the United States, so I felt like I did part of my job today.

Songbird

When ordinary events happen, Cameron uses the occurrences to spontaneously break out into song (I feel like I am in a musical).  Here are some of songs he has created:

When I buckled the boys into their carseats, he sang:  "Buckled together"

When I unbuckled them, he sang: "Unbuckled, unbuckled, unbuckled..."

When we talked about eating popsicles, he sang my favorite:  "Folly, lolly popsicles"

When Joshua asked if we could do something, I said "maybe," so Cameron sang:  "Maybe, probably"

When Joshua complained about having a charley horse in his leg, Cameron sang about a horse he could ride:  "This is my charley horse"