12/12/2008

Holiday party and lite profanity

Filed under: — Aprille @ 10:19 am

Today is my office holiday party.  It’s being held at a local food/drink/music venue (The Mill for you locals).  I remember last year—at least I think it was last year; maybe it was two years ago—at the analogous event, my friend Darah had her little girl with her who was probably about Miles’s current age.

Darah had ordered some food, and when it arrived her daughter was being a little squirmy.  I said, “Would you like me to hold her while you eat?”  My primary motivation was “Oooh, I want to hold the cute baby,” but the look on Darah’s face told me that perhaps it had been a while since she’d eaten a meal in peace.

I now understand where she was coming from.  If anybody’s interested in holding Miles tonight, consider yourself welcome to do it.

And now for the lite profanity.  Yesterday I was changing Miles’s diaper and he was not in the mood for it.  He registered his displeasure not by screaming or crying, but by letting loose a string of very rude-sounding baby talk.  It really seemed like he was chewing me out for being so discourteous as to inflict hygiene upon him.

It went a little something like this:  “Ba ba BAH gah ah BOO ba BLOO,” all with a very grumpy expression and tone of voice.

2 responses to “Holiday party and lite profanity”

  1. darah says:

    haha – I remember that! It was incredibly lovely just to sit and talk and eat and not worry about Guthrie. SO, we hereby make this a holiday party tradition. Someone hold the baby so mom and enjoy The Mill.

    Otherwise I might hack in to ICON and make your holidays very merry indeed.

    Wow, that was a little sinister wasn’t it?

  2. Carolyn says:

    Here’s a Youtube video of a barely verbal child imitating his parents on the phone. Kids’ ability to imitate tone and even syntax is amazing!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37yJxFkQ8o

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