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May 04, 2005 | Category: Mother to the First Power



Picking Bear up from his Montessori morning preschool program (when did we stop calling it 'Nursery School'?) this morning, I swung into the carpool lane listening to my most recent homemade CD*.

Bear marched up to the car with his teacher, Miss HotChick, holding his hand.

"We heard Bear had quite a morning," she said with a grin as she helped Bear into the van and into his car seat.

"Yes!" he agreed enthusiastically. "Remember, Mommy? I had a stuck POOPY and it hurt a little but then it was ok and then I medicine in my boom-boom and then it came RIGHT OUT and then I watched it in the potty and I was all better!"

Miss HotChick tried to keep a straight face at this recitation as she pulled on the seatbelt to get enough for Bear to click it into place. She was careful of her 1-inch purple sparkly fingernails.

Bear informed me, "You know what? Miss HotChick has a Tongue ring! A red one!"

"Really?" I asked.

"Five years I've had it and Bear is the first student to ever notice," she admitted. She stuck out her tongue at Bear with a smile. It is a red enamel stud - about as low-key as a tongue piercing can get.

Bear stuck out his tongue back and giggled.

She told me that she'd been honest with the kids once Bear had announced her piercing and explained that it had been done for decoration and only by a doctor when she was a grown-up. And that it had hurt a little when the needle had gone through.

"You know what, Mommy?" Bear asked as we pulled away from the curb. "I told her the medicine for her owie tongue!"

"What, Bear?"

"Just like my boom-boom - a 'POSSITORY' !!"

* Today's mixed CD, in honor of Mixmania, which I should have taken part in!!!

Theme: Chair Dancing to the Oldies (and their covers)
I'll take you there - Staple Singers
Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips
Aimee - Pure Prairie League
Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano
Old Man, Take A Look At My Life - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
FreeBird - Lynard Skynard
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Killing Me Softly - Lauren Hill with Wyclef Jean
Ribbons in the Sky - Stevie Wonder
Moondance - Van Morrison
Ain't No Sunshine - Will Young
Hey, Nineteen - Steely Dan
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Let's Stay Together - Al Green


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Comments


That is BEYOND funny. Even if the body piercings may have been different, we've all been there to a certain extent.

Posted by: Carmi on May 6, 2005 03:28 PM


It's so fun when our kids "share" bodily function stories. Little ones (especially preschoolers) have the BEST memories too. He-he-he!

Posted by: Grace on May 5, 2005 12:21 PM


Very carefully?

They match her streaked hair. Props for being coordinated?

Posted by: Elizabeth on May 5, 2005 09:54 AM


how in the world does anyone teach preschoolers with one-inch long sparkly purple fingernails???

Posted by: kalisah on May 5, 2005 09:46 AM


The director of my son's last preschool also had a pierced tongue and dagger fingernails. What's up with that? I'm not saying they should all dress in Laura Ashley (although that would be nice), but do they need to look like porn stars? I also have a problem with daycare workers who smell like cigarette smoke. I don't want my son to associate unconditional love with that dirty ashtray smell. Ewwww.

Posted by: notdonnareed on May 4, 2005 05:19 PM


One of these days we're going to have to have a play date with your son and my daughter. Let me know next time you head up to the Cape or out this way. Y'all can crash with us and break your journey. It'd be big fun!

Posted by: RP on May 4, 2005 03:11 PM