Peanut Butt

Baby Jaws went for his 12 month checkup this morning. I always get a call from the office the day before to confirm the appointment. This time, there was no call. I found it odd, but double checked my appointment card and sure enough, today was the day. When I arrived, they had no appointment in their computers for Baby Jaws. I whipped out my appointment card like it was my ticket to get in and was ready to put up a fight if they doctor couldn't see him today. We got in, but not before I had to update paperwork while balancing Baby Jaws on my lap. That takes talent.

In the waiting room, there was a little boy (maybe 2 years old) having one heck of a tantrum. He made my 3 year old look like an amateur. He screamed the entire time he was there. He was still screaming when we went back to the exam room. He screamed the entire time the nurse and doctor saw him. He screamed on the way out the door. Here's where I got a bit haughty. I had a smirk on my face as I looked on my two good little boys (for the moment). My child wasn't the tantrum creator for once.

I knew this was all too good to be true. I knew he had something up his sleeve. After the doctor had been examining Baby Jaws for a few minutes and asking questions about him, she asked if he was trying a lot of new foods. I told her he had even eaten a peanut one day before I could pry it away from him. At that, Big Brother yelled, "I pulled a peanut out of my butt!" All of my thoughts of my good little boy went right out the window.

I gave him the dirtiest look while yelling his full name, so he knew he was in trouble. The doctor laughed and said she didn't understand why boys thought saying things like that were so funny. She went on to say her girls never had the desire to talk like that, but her boys did it every chance they could get. If she only knew some of the things that have come out of his mouth.

It's apparently a boy thing. Boys think butts are funny. Grown men think butts are funny. I have to admit, I even think butts are funny at times. However, I do not think it's funny to yell about them at the doctor's office. But I'd take peanuts in butts over a tantrum any day.