Do you ever do things just to amuse yourself, as a parent?

• We talked Geetle into naming one of her babies “Little Baby Knothead”. She thinks its because he wears a hat with a knot on top. But really its because it makes us laugh.
• We secretly play “Will He Eat It?!” with Pookie at least once a week. He eats a wide variety of foods already. He prefers not to try new things, but usually we can convince him after only one or two soft requests. We have gotten him to eat cucumbers, shrimp, and olives recently. We convince him to try it and then try not to giggle when he actually does. Oddly enough, he seems to like most of what we get him to try.
• I have Geetle convinced that even though she sees me do laundry, its actually BAGD who washes the socks. So when she runs out of socks, I ask her “did you tell the sock-man?” Then she runs thru the house looking for BAGD to tell him he needs to wash some socks.
• Even though Pookie is a manly man, we taught him to say wee-wee and tinkle-tinkle. This one may actually be a joke on us, because he already knows that it makes us laugh. He only says it when he is hamming it up. Otherwise its pee. Just pee.

Parenting is hard work. We deserve to let off some steam every now and then. No real harm is done. And it makes for good stories later. BAGD’s family still talks about how Uncle Ray believed Great Grandpa Bluegrass when he told him that cows hatched out of those big round hay bales.