He even defies genetic rules
Genetically speaking, my boy is 50% me and 50% his mom.
Last night, the boy and I were having dinner at the table. He had a cheese sandwich, yogurt, some Cheerios (CHEE-YAHS), and he skillfully avoided a few pieces of fruit. The boy had his straw in the corner of his mouth, slowly sipping some water. At the same time, he was trying to cram a couple of CHEE-YAHS in the other side of his mouth, without losing suction on the straw.
I couldn't help but laugh hysterically at the sight of him attempting to eat and drink simultaneously. All that kept running through my mind was that old anti-drug commercial, where the dad confronts his kid about some drug paraphernalia found in the kid's room, and the kid replies, "...from you, alright?! I learned it from watching you!"
Sometimes, I think my kid might be more like 51 or 52% me.
Comments
mep said:
I was all excited that 100% of the poll respondants had chosen pepsi (b/c it is the greatest) but then I realized that I was the only respondant thus far.
That in no way decreases or invalidates the greatness of pepsi . . . it just destroys the reliability of the results.
PS: do the word verifications ALL have to do with poop? Because that's what I've noticed.
mep said:
I swear I didn't double post that comment. The vole is taking over your blog again Omar. . . .
ed. note - Duplicates have been removed
Glo said:
LOL - you are one-track...but that's a cool word to type. Much more fun than monkeybutt - which was really quite awkward.
Anyway - that kid is cool. but I've said it before.
Lianne said:
Now that my kids are getting older it scares the snot out of me how much they are like me, and how much they are like one another. My 13 year old does the exact expressions and movements of my 22 year old. And they all have my bizarre sense of humor.
And why do people drink water out of a straw. There is something about that that grosses me out.
Sarah said:
Is "geneic" a new word? Is this yet another new term that I'm just not hip enough to know?
I said:
You could have just sent me an email or something. But NOOOOOOOOOOOO, gotta call out my typos in public. Sheesh.
cadiz12 said:
it scares me more and more every day how much i'm like both my father and my mother. omar, i think the percentage fluctuates according to mood and situation.
Katie said:
My twitchy fingers are looking for materials to draw an appropriately massive punnett square. Fortunately, I will resist (supplies packed away) and will make it through this post without having to prove (or more accurately, disprove) Mendel's theories.
Syar said:
what the heck's a punnett? I can't really compare my characteristics to my mom, but by using my sister as a yardstick, I say we got the gene pool the rest of the family decided to skip. But there's always the weird things that are like branded into my wiring, like bad eyesight and shaking my foot when I'm asleep (like my dad).
that scenario with the Boy and the CHEE-YAHS sounds amusing. no visual representations?
X said:
what the heck's a punnett?
Oooh! Science! I know!
The theory states that there's a particular probability of getting one form of each gene from each parent. A punnett square is a way of displaying these probabilities by showing how they're likely to match up, and therefore how the offspring are likely to turn out.
---X
elasticwaistbandlady said:
There was a weight loss center commercial when I was a teen that featured a teenage girl exercising like crazy and when her firend asked her why she wouldn't stop she replied while looking at a picture of her Mom, "Because.....I don't EVER want to look like her". Meanwhile, the Mom is listening in the hallway and wiping away tears.
My Mom and I used to play out that scene over and over, and laugh hysterically. Guess what? Now I'm the fat one and I hope that my daughters never see that commercial.
Your boy sounds cute. My kids always shoved the Cheeyahs up their nose. No, they did NOT learn that from me. I only stick pencils and my finger up there.