I was getting something out of Evan’s drawer the other day and happened to knock off one of the planets on his solar system model. Of course I had no idea which one it was. He was standing there watching me. I apologized to him for knocking it off and quickly put it back together. He told me it was okay and then said “Uranus stinks!” followed by some giggles. I’m thinking to myself - why is this funny? He continues to laugh so I immediately think he is thinking of “Your anus stinks!”. I’m not sure at this point what to say because of course I should believe he is all innocent and just leave it at that.

But no – I couldn’t let it go. I asked him what he meant by that and he just repeated it and laughed again. I asked him if he was talking about the planet Uranus and he said yes – why? Well I just had to explain to him that I thought he was being silly by saying “Your anus stinks!” instead of “Uranus Stinks!”. Well come to find out he didn’t even know what an anus was. So after I explained it to him he came up to me and said “Mom – your anus stinks but don’t worry – everyone’s does”. He followed this by laughing of course.

At this point Todd comes in and gives me a look like “What in the world are you doing woman?”. He then hears Evan use his new word over and over again. Yep – we had to tell him not to use that word. Especially at school. What was I thinking?

Never a dull moment at our house.