My three year old heard a woman on tv say, “I raise my children.” He turned to me and said, “Mom, you graze your children, too. Look at the baby–he is grazing right now. And when I was a baby in your stomach, I grazed on your rope nurse.”
Huh?
I pieced it together: He misunderstood “raise” to be “graze.” I was nursing the baby, so he decided that the baby was “grazing.” It took a little extra to figure out the last part: He was referring to my breast as my “nurse” and had decided that the umbilical “cord” was a “rope” and since it fed him, it must be some kind of a “nurse” (breast). So, umbilical cord=rope nurse.
It just floors me how they think sometimes. Watching them make sense of the world, and realizing, Hey, what he said really does make perfect sense, makes me proud . . . and makes me laugh and laugh . . .
I love kids, they are so awesome when they come up with this kind of stuff. Really awesome.
We have a child who calls the rocking chair where her mom nursed all of the kids the “breast bed chair”. TW says she definitely napped a good bit in that chair during nursing. Heh.
Oh, that’s so funny. We can’t get anything by these kids…
Hi Marjorie,
Thank-you for visiting me. Your blog is awesome. I cashed out my retirement so I could stay home for a while. I loved it and don’t regret it at all. You know what was boring, and tedious? Work. I think its great that you are at home and doing extended breastfeeding. I will be back to read more.
Googie