Sunday, August 26, 2007

Funny but wrong

Someday, he'll be totally mortified by this story, but nevertheless it must be recorded for posterity.

We had a shower for Julie's new baby last Friday. It was an informal family event, kids and all. We were visiting upstairs and most of the kids were downstairs watching HSM2. I got a potty duty call and started downstairs. Sam was outside of the bathroom where the (mostly girls) were watching tv, pants down to his ankles, and he was dancing and singing "booty shaking, booty shaking." The girls were shrieking and laughing. I was filled with such shock, humor and embarassment-- I was awestruck. I ran down and ushered him to the bathroom. Once inside, I told him that he couldn't go around naked in front of other people, especially not girls. He asked why, and I came up with "Because God made those parts special and we need to keep them to ourselves."

"Why," he asked.

"Well, they're just special, that's why. Keep your pants on."

I went upstairs and informed the others that their daughters had just been exposed to some full frontal and backside nudity courtesy of Sam. Julie mentioned that her girls were wondering what Baby David would look like and how he would be different. I told her to fear no more, they now knew exactly what he'd look like! We were still laughing when Sam ran upstairs to play in the toy room with the other boys. A few seconds later, a parade of girls came up from downstairs chanting "Sam! Sam! Sam! Sam!"

It was a night to remember, that's for sure!

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