Deja Poo
By Mitch Berg
Zam is very much a teenager now. Tall, lanky/scrawny, sullen, surly – and, lately, very much hygiene-optional. With all the requisite olfactory problems that causes.
So I was walking through the “baby” section in WalMart for some reason the other day – and the smell brought me to a screeching halt.
They say smells are the most powerful triggers of memory. I’ve a believer today. I had this overwhelming wash of nonspecific baby memories; changing diapers, rocking a tiny Zam to sleep, waking up and checking on him in the middle of the night – complete with the smells that attended each; the relief of a whiff of Desitin on a hot, rashy day, the happy grin when the powder went on, the satisfied gurgle and the aroma of formula as he spit up…
I think God gives us memories like that to take our minds off the miserable present that teenagers give us for a couple of…months.
It’s gotta be months.
Gotta.
That, or I’ll be spending more time in the baby aisle.
June 30th, 2008 at 9:19 am
See, this is the sort of thing I just don’t want to think about with two boys in diapers. If you want, you are welcome to come over and take the bag out of our diaper pail and see what memories that brings back…
June 30th, 2008 at 10:45 am
My son just pooed for the first time in 3 days. Wanna come change him?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
“Zam is very much a teenager now. Tall, lanky/scrawny, sullen, surly – and, lately, very much hygiene-optional. With all the requisite olfactory problems that causes.”
Oh I can not tell you how happy I am to hear that it is not just the Junior Logician! We have to beg, plead, threaten, whatever it takes to get that boy in the shower…..then throw in a couple of days hard labor in the hot Utah mountain sun and……
Of course he will probably kill me for telling you all this, but at this point I just don’t care…..
Cindy
June 30th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Wanna come change him?
I’d love to, but:
a) It only counts with one’s own kids, and…
b) by the time I got to the far southwest burbs, that’ll be one stinky diaper.
Give it 13-15 years. You’ll know what I mean.
June 30th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Don’t worry. It was already one stinky diaper! And i changed it. It would be a pretty long bike ride for you!