Fun With Homynyms

"Pees is like water." Zen Baby tells me as we carry her latest offering to the potty gods into the bathroom for disposal.

"Yeah, I guess so." I answer, a little taken aback by the comparison but impressed by the cognitive skills she's showing in making it. "But pee is not for drinking," I hasten to add.

"Pees is yummy." She says, triumphantly flushing the toilet.

"No!" I quickly disgree, more than a little disturbed by the direction of this conversation. "Pee is not yummy! Yuck!"

"Yes yummy." She tells me. "Yummy supper pees."

"Oh!" The penny drops. "You mean the little green peas we eat on your plate?"

"Yeah." She answers, looking at me like I'm an idiot.

"Yeah." I agree, relieved. "Those peas are yummy."

Who knew potty training would include discussions like this?

Comments

I don't even want to tell you the conversations we've had over here. Barbarian has been using the potty for about a month now, but refused to before because he was afraid it would fall off. I had to assure him that it's not going anywhere. We've seen Flushed Away one too many times.

Hee-hee! What a character you've got there!

So, um, how are peas like water, then?

oh boy, I never thought that could be an advantage to calling it wee!!

I can see where she'd be confused and you'd be even more so.

At least she wants to use the potty. My lil man is almost three and would only use the potty to hide things in until we took them out of general reach. He downright refuses to potty train yet.

how cute! at least she's useing it. My son wAs and is now refusing to even go near the potty.

Heh, too funny.