Little Man...Naked Baby
posted 08.03.2007 by Kristen

For some reason whenever the girls see a man, they say, "Little man, Mommy!" I have no idea where this came from. I first noticed it a few weeks ago when we were going in to the house from the car and they saw the mail man across the street. "Little man, Mommy!" The mail man is not so tall, so I thought they really did think he was particularly little, so I didn't think much of it (though I did point out that he was "the mail man," hoping they'd blurt that out when he came to our door instead of "little man"), but then they were calling it out from the backseat whenever we passed any random guy walking down the street, and the other day at the mall Natalie said "Little man, Mommy!" about a guy in the food court a couple of tables over who was clearly 6 feet tall.

And the other bit of background for this story is that whenever we get the girls ready for their baths, once we get them stripped down to their diaper, we call out "Naked baby!" Or when one of them proudly takes off her own clothes, we always ask gaily, "Who's a naked baby?" So they take great joy in saying, "Nakee baby!!"

Cut to this morning, when I pull up to Ximena's house. A guy a couple of doors down is walking out of his house, and he's not wearing a shirt. First Natalie calls out "Little man, Mommy!" and then Rita says, "Nakee baby!" Which of course leads to the inevitable, "Little man nakee baby, Mommy! Little man nakee baby!" Luckily he just needed to get something out of his car and was back in his house by the time I had started getting them unloaded from the backseat, else he really would have wondered what the heck they were jabbering about.