Ducks in the Vacuum

I don't like the sound of the word fart. I've tried a couple other euphemisms; wind, toot... but they do not work. Toot sounds stoopid and wind sounds really old and wrong. I can't use gas either, it bothers me and at best, requires a verb. It sounds like a painful medical condition rather than a quick, normal event.

So everytime Ivo, ahem, passes gas, he says "I fart." When he burps he announces "I burp." I mentioned to Ryan that I'd like to find another word for fart.

I have been away from Ivo/Burl maybe 2 hours Burl's whole life (excluding the ER). Most of these 2 hours happened over the weekend when I got to visit Isabel and her shiny new baby Albert and (finally) got to see Alison's beautiful little Tessa. When I returned from Alison's house, Ivo came up to me and said, "I have a stinky duck in my bum!" Now, 2 days later, Ivo's keeping it up. Waving his hand in front of his nose he says "Dat duck, dat a stinky duck. Like Papa."

This bothers me cuz... well, for one thing, now people (you know who you are) are farting with abandon, loud and proud. Then they're narrating their efforts with long descriptions of these... ducks. DUCKS. Sometimes they talk it up before the duck arrives. We've gone from albeit daily - but occassional - use of the word fart by Ivo to steady dialoging on ducks by half the household...

Simpsons movie coming next week!

Speaking of movies, on Sunday Ivo, Burl, Ryan and I went to Mitsukoshi to see Ratatouille. It's a Brad Bird movie and since he did Incredibles and the Iron Giant plus so many Simpsons, we were sure we'd all enjoy it. This is Ivo's 2nd movie and Burl's first. Ivo's first (and Ryan and my last) movie was the most recent Star Wars film, we saw it in May 2005 when Ivo was about 5 months old - same as Burl now.

Burl watched with a serious face for about 20 minutes then slept with only one more period of movie-gazing. Ivo was great. We just had to hush him a little when he was assigning us new roles, "You the boy. I the mouse. I Remy. I have long tail. You have hat." Fun fun fun. After the movie we ran into Josie and her posse.