Quoted: "Something Else"

We've avoided telling Emmy about any sort of male anatomy because, well, there's no male anatomy in her life that she needs to know about.

But she's seen Romeo pee about 8 hundred thousand times in her three years of living, and one day she just came up with the notion that he pees out of his belly button. She would just watch the stream of sugar filled urine streaming from his little diabetic canine urethra and say, "Look, Romeo is peeing out of his belly button!" She seemed so proud to have figured that out that we never bothered to correct her. What's the harm in letting your toddler think her min pin pees out of his belly button? Is that going to prevent her from going to Harvard? I think not.

If anything, it sets her up for a random question she asked last night while making her before-bed potty stop.

"Daddy, do you pee out of your belly button? Or something else?"

The Good Doctor's highly scientific, grown up response: "I pee out of my pee pee. Just like you Emmy."

Quoted

We really got our holiday fix on this weekend. Asian Grandma and Grandpa came over and cooked a crab fest on Sunday, then we all piled in the Prius to go to the Festival of Lights at Vasona Park.

Mistake 1: Going in my car. Cramped with a car seat, pregnant lady, and Asian Grandma riding center. Oops.

Mistake 2: Going at peak time. It took 1.5 hours to see about 20 minutes of lights. 

But it was well worth it when this holiday song came on in the car.

The lyrics go "Mamacita, donde esta Santa Claus? Donde esta Santa Claus?"

My dad goes: "I bet Mamacita means Merry Christmas, huh?"

And I would've rolled on the floor laughing, except I'm whale sized and we don't roll so well out of water. 

Then my mom says in a low voice in Vietnamese: "It means house, doesn't it?"

Immigrant parents are the best.

Everyone, I'd just like to wish you Mamacita and a Happy New Year.

Quoted

The Good Doctor: Cheers Emmy!

Emmy: Cheers...to the freakin' weekend. I drink to that. Ya ya yaaa.

The Good Doctor: *Raises eyebrows*

Apparently I've played Rihanna's song a few too many times on the iPad. As long as she's not saying "Don't let the bastards get you down, turn it around with another round" I think I'm OK. I think the overall message of the song is a positive one, CPS officer.

Quoted

Us (eating sushi for dinner): Here Emmy, have some unagi; it's eel!

Emmy: Mmm. Kinda like a sea otter.

Us: ????

Emmy: I'm eating seal!

Us: No, Emmy, it's EEL. Like a snake that lives in the water.

Emmy: Snakes don't live in the wadder. (Munch munch)

Have I told you how fun 2.5 years old is? It is SO fun. And yes, we feed our toddler eel. But not seal. The line has been drawn. Seals: cute. Eels: dragon roll.

Water Polo

The Good Doctor was thisclose to meeting a 19 year old coed from Cal Poly. Via her pre-surgical MOTHER.

Him: "Hello, I'm your anesthesiologist today. Here's what's going to happen blah blah mayhem and destruction blah blah blast out your lesions blah blah you're going to be in fine hands blah blah are you ready to rumble blah blah."

Overly enthusiastic mother/patient: "You sure look young!"

Him: "Well, I've had many years of training blah blah you'd rather see me than some old guy blah blah I know all the latest and greatest techniques blah blah."

Her: "I was going to tell my daughter about my cute doctor but then I noticed the wedding ring on your finger."

Him: (Raises eyebrows behind mask)

Her: "You would like her. She's plays water polo. Very tall. 5' 10." 

Me (at the gym where this story was later told to me): "Nuh UH! Her mother? Oh no she di'in't!"

Him: "Yep. Said her daughter was 19."

Me: "Did you tell her you have a shortstack wife who will bring the RAIN? (In my best female James Earl Jones voice) The RAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNN?!!!"

Him: "No."

Me: "No way. What on earth. For realz? Who says that to their DOCTOR? About their NINETEEN YEAR OLD? Does she not know you're old? Like 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, and 4 years of residency OLD?"

Him: "And that was before I even gave her any drugs."

Me: "Well, you should have told her you're not into water polo girls. That you like petite cheerleader girls. Who can bring the RAAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNN."

This lady better watch it.  High School Vicky is never too far away. And she will cutttt you.

We did get a good laugh out of picturing me playing water polo though.