Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Burping machine

Aunt Jean so kindly reminded me of an Isaac-ism uttered in Indianapolis that knocked me half-unconscious with laughter:

At Meemaw and Poppop's house one night, Meemaw invented a peek-a-boo game with Jacob. Jacob crawled onto Isaac's bed (a crib mattress on the floor) and pulled the blanket over his head to hide. After a few "Where's Jakey?" inquiries from the Meemaw, Jacob would pull the blanket down and let out a seriously unholy loud and long shriek. This shriek was so violently loud that it roused Jean and I from our activity with Isaac. But when the three of us went upstairs to investigate, we could only find a toddler noise maker wearing a gigantic grin as he screamed his precious blond head off at his adoring Meemaw.

Seeing that there was no death or dismemberment here, we all decided Jacob's crazy game needed to be captured on video. Jean whipped out her digital camera and recorded away, but of course as soon as she started Jacob lost all interest in playing Mothra. His camera-tastic brother stepped up instead.

Isaac decided it was high time to show Meemaw and Jean how he could burp at will. Repeatedly. He thinks this is hilariously funny and does it often. It is funny, and he is a boy, but I try to be a good mom and encourage him to excuse himself after at least one burp. Sometimes he pulls a cop out on his "excuse me"s and tells me that he's pretending to be Mike Wazowski in that final scene from Monsters, Inc where Mike lets a monster-sized burp to get a kid to laugh. What can you say to that?

This time Isaac the Imaginator Extraordinaire found another loophole in the "excuse me" clause. "But Mom," he said, "I'm a burping machine. Machines don't have to 'scuse', because that's just what they do's".

1 Comments:

Blogger Jean said...

I got the video/audio clip on my blog - www.seejeanrun.com! It's a .wmv file so hopefully you can get it to play on your fancy Mac.

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