My Life... In A Nutshell

I went on a "Hot Date" this weekend with my son. Every once in a while I like to surprise him and spend some time doing something fun together. Ok... we do lots of fun stuff together, but he's been on a rampage wanting a pop-up book. It seemed that wherever we looked no pop-up book was to be found... Kmart... Walmart... Target... it was like there was a conspiracy against me, and my boy’s quest for pop-up knowledge. So I had this delusion of grandeur that we would head to TC and go to the bookstore. Some wise soul fortunately intervened and reminded me of the bookstore just 30miles to the north, instead of 60 miles to the west. So we went to Saturn Booksellers, which is my new favorite store for my son...by the way, and found the pop-up books. **Insert Hallelujah chorus here** So I had picked out a Bugs In Space pop up, which I thought was cool... but then... at the top... way out of my sons reach was a book and it had a sticky, yucky, tongue on it... and he saw it.

I tried to divert his attention, I tried to show him Bugs In Space, I even caved and broke out the Star Wars Pop-up... but he would have none of it, he wanted the tongue book. So I took it down, and had him look at it. (No way was I buying it.... NO WAY.....) Yeah... I got it. It was the only book in the store he wanted. He was enthralled by it. It's a pop up book about... the DIGESTIVE System. It starts with the sticky yucky tongue (Which is where your food quest begins) and it follows the food throughout your ENTIRE body... alllllllll the way out. (If you catch my drift) The last page is a POP UP page of a boy... sitting on the toilet with the pop up signs of PLOP, PLARP coming out of the back.

Kid you not.

On the up side, it IS quite detailed. He even asked me tonight while we were eating dinner, if Spiderman had an esophagus, and if he swallowed food through his intestines like we did. That's a plus right? Right????

**Sigh**

My son... my hot date... and poop.


Not much different from real dates, when you think about it. I mean this one even had a sticky tongue. Ok... it was on a book, and not on a person.. But still...