Not smelling like breast milk

[gwendally]

Small Boy has been hinting for some weeks now that he's getting kind of sweaty.  Well, duh, it gets hot in the summer and we're out riding bikes and gardening and using our bodies.  "No," he says, he's sweating because he's "becoming a teenager.  Want to smell my underarms?" he inquires pertly?  I have always replied the same thing, "No, you're not

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[mybonnykate]

Your baby!

I was kissing his tiny chubby toes last night. They will never REALLY turn into big stinky man-feet, will they? These miniature round pink dimpled things?

[galagwyn]

Can't swear as to what they will turn into but at nearly-nine, the only round pink things left on my eveleg rowing DS are a bit north of his toes.

[galagwyn]

*eveleg rowing? Uh, ever-growing.

[_evalution]

:( waaaah! so bittersweet.

[reannon]

Oh hell, just be glad he WANTED to start wearing it. I practically had to wear a gas mask around the apartment before I could convince Spawn to use the damn speed stick I bought him. I was assured that all boys are that gross until some pretty girl wrinkles her nose at him, then they discover hygiene in a hurry.

[marveen]

Is that when they decide that bathing and laundry could be a good thing too?

(Grey's kid sometimes simply REEKS. I was pleasantly surprised when he bathed just before a visit this week--and as he's rising thirty, it's about damned time.)