Stomach Wolves
The three children. Two are going to school this morning. One is staying home to try to make Mether laugh.Around here, when observing less-than-optimal behavior, we toss around phrases like, "Were you born in a barn? Shut the door!" and "Use your fork! Were you raised by wolves?" We're joking, usually, trying to make a point. But it sinks in, and comes back out in interesting ways.
Liam was bemoaning the fact that his best friend in second grade, "Jeremy," won't play with him at recess. Instead, he collects pebbles on the playground, spending his time absorbed in this solitary pursuit.
"Well, honey, maybe he just needs to wind down at recess. Spend some time thinking his own thoughts."
Liam spooned some chocolate pudding in his little cakehole.
"Poor Jeremy. He was born in a rock's stomach."
This is the kind of observation that has earned Liam the title, "King of the Non Sequitur." And yet it made a perfect kind of sense.
Phoebe, who was helping me shell lima beans from the garden, cut her eyes at me and whispered,
"Raised by stomach wolves."
I laughed all the way through a big plastic bag of lima beans, and got them all shelled. They're so good I'm going to put them in a cream sauce for my little stomach wolves.
What would I do without my babies? They make me laugh .
First day of school, August 22, 2007.
Labels: I can't think of a label for this post. Lima beans? Stomach wolves? Cakehole?
posted by Julie Zickefoose @ 7:36 PM
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15 Comments:
Those pictures of your little stomach wolves are beyond precious. Lordy. They don't make me laugh, but I am smiling broadly.
We must be related. Those are the same lines - 'born in a barn' - 'raised by wolves' - that I grew up with. Maybe it's a regional thing - I did know Zickefoose's in central Ohio.
Label? Perhaps "little boy growing up fast." Somehow in these pictures he looks very different from the boy I've been reading about these past 9 months.
oh my, that Liam is beautiful. You are so articulate regarding your children. Thanks for the insight into your boy's mind.
Those younguns are just as good-looking as the tuberoses. No, wait - even better!
It was our first day, too. My kids make weirder faces than yours for their pics. They were, undoubtedly, raised in a barn by chupacabras.
Hope they had a great first day. Loved the pics.
"Born in a barn" and "raised by wolves" were frequent admonishments in our family, too. Wait - do you use "Shut the door; you're letting the flies out" at your house?
Lovely stomach wolves - which ones went to school and which one stayed home with Mether?
I was brought right with pithy sayings like:
1. Were you born in a barn???
2. Cut your steak, don't rip into it, you little carnivore!
3. Shut the door! You'll let the chickens in!
Born in a rock's stomach. LOL
Liam...the Poet Laureate of Indigo Hill.
Oh, the joy. Enjoy your little "born in the barn - raised with wolves" wonderful offspring. I love them and would love to meet them. The first weeks of school are so exciting and so worrisome and challenging for kids. Phoebe and Liam have the best support system on earth: YOU and BILL and CHET.
Those photos are priceless. I've been watching them grow for almost a year. Growing fabulously.
Now, go rest about it and give Chet some soft lip kisses.
Your description of your off to school children brings a smile to my face, and a huge sigh of relief--mine are all grown and gone. Thank goodness.
My daughter's non sequitur was a retort to me as I complained about potholes in the road--she was 4 at the time, and piped up "Only chipmunks have holes." Huh? But I loved it, and quoted it for days.
What sweet, sweet photos. That Liam is one funny guy! :c)
Maybe you should title that post "out of the mouths of babe's".
Children come up with the zaniest things to say. When my 24 yr old son was 4 he was asked why he wasn't worried about snapping turtles in a pond we swam in...his reply was "Mom always wanted a girl"....the little old lady was refering to a loss of toes...obviously he was not.
Those two are the cutest kids ever! How do you ever stop kissing those sweet faces and let them out the door?
I was often told that I must have been born in a barn, but never had stomach wolves. I'm going to remember that one. Although, there is a beautiful poetry to being born in a rock's stomach.
Love Liam's hair!! And, your label gave me a chuckle.
Great first day of school pictures and stories. I recently asked someone younger than me to "spell me for a minute" and she looked at me "like I had two heads". She had no idea it meant cover me for a minute....sheesh...good thing I didn't ask her to "hold her horses"
Heck ya we're cute.
*Angelic Giggle*
Almost the first day of school for us again around here! I miss the days of the little boy non-sequitirs...I've got to write ours down! We were having a discussion one day about the word man -made. My husband explained very patiently that it is used to describe things that are made by humans and not by natural forces. He said, "Like a tree. Is a tree man-made?" My stepson Max (probably in 2nd grade at the time) said very seriously after a confused pause, "What's a tree man?" :)
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