On Saturday morning I was having a bath. As with any solo parenting activity, somehow the children always infiltrate and I was suddenly sharing the bath with the 5 year old. Instead of relaxing and pondering the day ahead she decided we should play Eye Spy.
Towels, Mirror, Duck, Soap, Shower, Flowers were all played. The 5 year old is getting very good at Eye Spy. In fact at one point, feeling very confident in her guessing skills, she decided it might be fun to up the anti and change the rules.
“What if we just say a letter in the middle of the word and guess that way” she suggested. I explained how long a game like that might take (3 and a half weeks) and we went back to the classic version.
It was my turn. “I spy with my little eye something beginning with T”
“Towel?” She said.
“No”
“Toilet?”
“Nope”
“Tits?”
“Pardon?” I said not sure I’d heard right.
“Tits” she said again, loud and clear.
I looked down at my … boobs and looked back at her. “What are tits?” I asked her.
“Those” and she pointed … at the wall.
“Oh right, but I don’t see what you mean”
“The stripes on the wall” she said still pointing.
“Right, OK, can I just tell you that they are called stripes … and only stripes”
“Stripes, OK, but that doesn’t begin with T” she said
“I know” I said, still wondering who had told my daughter that stripes are also known as tits.
She looked around for a bit “Toothbrush?” she offered
“Yes, that’s it, now this bath is getting cold, time to get out”
15 Comments on "I Spy With My Little Eye Something Beginning With ‘T’"
I love it!
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I love that. Hilarious. Show us your stripes babe. Ahubbahubba
They have a brilliant way of letting us know they have noticed things, don’t they? My daughter says things like that, and worse!
Good to know that ‘stripes’ have another meaning
Tee hee! Bless ‘em. I might go into John Lewis and ask where the Tit wallpaper is… just to see what reaction I get! There’s an award at mine for you x
ha ha, brilliant, this has really brightened my morning! Has she said anything like that in public yet? My friend’s 3 year old went through a phase of asking any men she met (including her grandad!) whether ‘he had a willie like daddy’!
Every now and then I have a bath with my little girl (6 yrs) and she just likes to look at all my ‘bits’. After a while, I then catch her looking at all her ‘bits’ and doing a comparison study.
Very funny, in both senses.
You’re very tolerant – small children were absolutely not allowed to interrupt my bathtime. I’d have locked the door if they’d tried to come in. My other refuge, when they were slightly older and constantly squabbled with each other, was the greenhouse. They were allowed in but only if they were nice. If not, I threw them out.
LOL That is one for the baby book!
That is hilarious!
It was me…….:P
Tits?? For stripes??! Where on earth did she get that one from! Lets hope she doesn’t start calling the toilet the crapper like my friend’s little girl did the other day…
P.S. you don’t think tits for stripes is something to do with their vertical, downward quality? Just thinking of my own…
x
Oh how I wish someone would have told me not to teach the children eye spy, it is getting very tired now!! We dont have stripes, but we too have had tits (birds). I love the phrases they come out with. Both my boys now say Oh for pittys sake mummy (MadDad says it when things are not as they should be).
LOL! My daughter keeps saying,”Oh, Crab!”.Of course I don’t correct her.
My “stripes” look like stripes when I am in the bath…