Mommy, I Have A Snake In My Underwear – 27/3/11

Now, I am not sure if little girls do these things because the world of daughters is very foreign to me, however, my boys always seem to think their undergarments are a good place to store things.....

This week my 3rd lost a Star Wars Beanz figure in his pants. He was most distraught as he could not find it and he was quite sure that he had placed it in a safe spot. In a panic, clothes were being torn at, trying to uncover the lost beanz which in fact had snuck out of his pant leg and was resting safely on the floor. I also discovered a few weeks ago, while changing my youngest, thankfully only a wet diaper, that at least 3 DS pens can fit comfortably in a diaper with no discomfort. I am not sure how long he had been storing them there but he was not bothered. My oldest is past putting things in his pants, however can often be found with light sabers, swords or the tubing for the vacumn, when the previous 2 items cannot be found, sticking out of his pants as we do not have the appropriate sheaths that a regular jedi would use.

The best came 2 nights ago however, when a very distraught second child came running to me, terror in his eyes... hindsight tells me this was a twinkle, not terror. He grabbed my hand and proclaimed... "Mommy, I have a snake in my underwear". Now my mind is going wild, I certainly do not think he has a snake in his underwear, I am wondering if I am going to have a brief theme 5 lesson... which I do not really want to do. He is a very literal little boy, not one to tell tall tales.... I simply say, "No honey, there are no snakes in your underwear" and hope to hell that he does not want any further clarification... Well, that answer was not good enough and his pants come flying down and his underwear is quite obviously the next piece of clothing to be removed. I quickly told him to stop and he tells me I must check.... to stop this conversation, I roll my eyes and concede and check to make sure there is no snake. Well, as mentioned before, I am rarely wrong, however, there as I pulled back the back of his underwear was a plastic snake peering at me... I looked up to see a twinkle, a smirk and a very obvious  "I told you so" look on his face. The snake had a bath and we had a talk about the importance of keeping things out of our pants.

I hope the talk worked. I want him to learn because a statement such as "I have a snake in my pants", no matter how literal, does not fly when you are older..... I can imagine my superhero would have gotten a smack, a roll of the eyes and a rather annoyed look had he made such a remark to me as it is no longer so cute and innocent as one ages... I am sure after reading this that down the road these words may come out of the super heros mouth...