Yesterday when I picked brother up from school he jumped in the back seat with his hands clasped together.  Clasped together into that childhood finger play, you know the one, Here is the Church - Here is the Steeple.  Except when I drove off he said hey mom, “Open the diaper. ”

I reached behind me and touched his hand, as I was doing so he said, “Open the diaper and see the wiener.”  Where in the Here’s the Church finger play, you open to all your fingers and it is finished and see all the people.   When he opened his hands, there was only one finger sticking up. Funny. Totally Inappropriate. Okay Then, I think those were my first words. I know better than to react, because in second grade those types of things are learned and they are learned as a way to annoy the parents.  You react and it continues, you casually say, ha, not too funny, and it goes away.

I asked him if that is what he was learning in second grade and told him it was not a good thing.  So of course he continued on.  This time he asked me to open the diaper and I said no.  He said he changed it, so I touched his hand.  This time he had all his fingers up, like the Here’s The Church finger play but this time he said, and see all the wieners.  Sister was reprimanding him, and asking if he knew how old that thing was, I had never heard it before but she said she learned it in grade school as well.

After he did it, I simply said, “Wow, you must be really smart.”  More to myself then to them.  After we had driven for a few minutes, Sister said, “Ha, I get it.  I didn’t at first, but then I had to think like you.”

What?, I joked.

“A Man’s Brain…. He thinks from.   Mom, your brain scares me sometimes.”

I’m thinking the Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From The Tree -