Mono Metamorphosis – sex education required
“I am unisex, I am unisex, I am unisex,” he chants for no particular reason that I can fathom.
“What do you mean dear?”
“I am meaning dat I am being part cat.”
“Oh yes, I remember the 'part cat.'”
“He is being dah part dog.”
“Is he indeed. I wondered why he was growling. What's the er……'unisex' bit?”
“Uni is be meaning one.”
“Gosh yes, I know that too. But…..er…….?”
“Only one part is being dog or cat, so it be 'uni.'”
“Yes true……I was just wondering…..about the…..which part……bit…….er….?”
“Dah mouth is dah sex part.”
“Really……that is a surprise.”
“Yes coz his dog mouth eats bones only bones, uni.”
“Ah, I see….and?”
“My mouth, my cat part only eats dah goldfish.”
“Ah!”
“Um…….I fink I am have dah wrong word.”
“Oh good. I mean…..really?”
“I am not mean ’sex’ I am mean ’species’!”
“Wow, easy to get those two muddled.”
“I am uni-species!”
“But if you’re part cat and part human wouldn’t that be duo?”
“No.”
“No?”
“Bye, bye, bye, bye…….” shrieks as he runs away before he pops back to clarify, head around the corner, “I am bi-species……dats what I am?”
He grins hugely before disappearing just like a Cheshire cat.
I sometimes wonder?
My child is seemingly “monophagous” upon Goldfish crackers.
I should take him over here:-
“Andrea” over at “Andrea’s Buzzing About:”
[I got it right in the end! What a pain in the colon!]
October 19th, 2008 at 4:46 am
What a vocabulary! I love your er’s and um’s around the sex part of unisex…it adds a definate comedic element.
October 19th, 2008 at 6:10 am
(Shakes head and chuckles) Damn, that’s some serious vocabulary AND impressive proper usage of those prefixes he’s got there.
October 19th, 2008 at 7:05 am
At least the last bit came out “bi-species” instead of using the other word-root! LOL!
October 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am
That is beyond funny and your response is the ultimate of cool under pressure.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Just wish those Goldfish might metamorphize into some other food group…..
October 19th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Well handled!
October 19th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Words are so easily muddles. The not-wife’s gran used to talk about moicro orgasms instead of organisms!
October 19th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
oh he is be brilliant! i do so love to hear the way children play with language as they are learning. it reveals so very much of their thought processes. what a marvelous exchange.
October 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
You do have some conversations with your boys
October 21st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Your conversations with your kids are always my favorite posts! To go from unisex to bi-species. Only in your house, Maddy.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:16 pm
When he said the mouth was the sex part, I thought this story was going in another direction altogether. Can’t wait ’til your kids really do start asking you the tough questions. (Note to self: stock up on Depends undergarments for future Maddy posts).
December 19th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Excellent points.