Baby Blog

Oh my darling baby boy.  It has become impossible to keep up with the words coming out of my son’s mouth. It seems like every minute that passes he learns a new word.  No source of knowledge goes untapped or unnoticed. He is like a little recording device that plays back his new information at inappropriate moments.

Mostly it’s my fault. I write very differently than I speak. Meaning: I don’t swear in my scribbles.  But in a stressed out busy mommy, housewife, self employed, museum curator, volunteer and basically overextended human being I do have occasion to…eject the odd stress relieving verbal negativity. Ahem.

And of course. These are the things my little mimic likes to repeat. It’s never the good stuff right?

I always cringe when Nik repeats something inappropriate. It’s never in the privacy of our own home. It’s at the library during story time (like when he yelled at our cat in the middle of Three Little Pigs), in a crowded restaurant crowded with museum patrons and board members, It’s when we are visiting grandparents or shopping in a unusually quiet store. Yes, those are the mortifying moments the mimic shows up.

I’m learning to watch my words more than ever. I always hope that one day he’ll start repeating the good stuff like “I love you.”

Sometimes it’s cute when baby Nik mimics. Today we went for a slice of cheesecake with a close friend who needed cheering up a little. As the cheesecake arrived looking so fattening and lovely she jumped for joy and let out a little “who hoo!” And of course, my son repeated the word, the tone and the accompanying arm motions.  I could hardly swallow my first bite I was laughing so hard.

Well, at least when your little digital recorder in a diaper isn’t embarrassing you, they’ll be sure to cheer you up on a bad day.

Cheesecake helps too.