The other day, Luca and I were watching one of his “educational programs” (AKA: not right now honey, mommy is facebooking). It was showing all types of animals. I was naming all the cute little critters for him and face-booking from my iphone. I’ll give you a moment to judge me.
OK, so they got to a 4 legged white animal. He looked at me and pointed at it. “What the hell is it mommy?”, he thought. And you know what? I had NO IDEA! WHAT?! I mean, I knew it was either one of two things: a goat or a sheep. But I honestly did not know. So I problem solved in my head for a bit, not that long though, and said to myself “Baaaa” and then was like “ITS A SHEEP!” And I was correct.
A pretty long time ago, I bought Luca this bath set of cute little animals. Yesterday he held one up to me and thought, “What the hell is this mommy?.” I was like, “Ummmm, Ummmmm, Ummmmm”. So, I did some more problem solving. I remembered the name on the set of animals was “Silly ____”. Again, like the “Baaaa”, I figured it out. SILLY SEA LIONS! I mean, A. Silly Octopus just didn’t have the same ring to it. B. Octopus don’t have whiskers and C. and mainly, because I am an intelligent 31 year old woman. In case you aren’t sure either, because I’m sure that’s, like, super common in adults, I’ve provided you with visuals below.
GOAT
Sheep
All I keep thinking is how bad my preschool teacher must have sucked! And that I have to teach my child a world of things I sometimes don’t know myself. Scary. I hope he is not like, “Kitty goes woof!!”, when he sees a an elephant at the zoo when he is sixteen. MAJOR FAIL!
To top it all off, I go into my husbands drawer on Sunday in search of comfy socks. I put the newest and best ones he has on, and I see this:
This made me realize two things. My husband is obviously having his own insecurities about his preschool education, AND, that our kid is fucked.
Allison of Me and Mine submitted this true motherhood story. And if your son does say the Kitty goes “Woof” when he’s 16… just blame your husband… with this sock picture, you have got AWESOME proof!}
