KIDS SAY THE MOST INAPPROPRIATE THINGS:


i'm so sorry for the subject matter of this blog-- but the story is just too too good to not blog about it!

for those that don't know, i teach children's theater at a family theater here in beantown. i love what i do... sometimes (said with a smile of course). for those that also don't know, i LOVE being around boys... there is just a different energy about the way they play and talk and interact... when i have kids, i want a whole slew of boys {ostentatious put me down! for you mary}

anyway, this particular week of school vacation week camp has been so much fun. we have 13 kids in the class and 6 of them are boys who have grown up together and gone to the same school together since pre-k. they also happen to be good friends with russell- the love of my life... so most of them i have met before when they have come over to have play-dates with russ.

i find that most of these boys and i get along really well and what makes it even more comical is that even though they are of the male gender, they are just as cuddly and in need of physical attention as they girls... and it's so funny. at any given point in my day, if i am sitting on the floor, i have about 3 boys climbing on me, sitting on my lap or spontaneously hitting me... what can i say- they love me!

now i don't mean to have favorites, but i must admit that there seems to be certain kids that just make me smile more... you just can't help it! mr zach just happens to be one of the favored. part of what i love about zach is his adorable lateral lisp [you know how you say rice is nice and the "ce" sounds more like they are trying to spit out of the side of their mouth]... mixed with his mischievous little smile- the kids has me wrapped around his finger.

yesterday, we were working on designing a back drop. i had the kids sitting with me in a circle and each was drawing a picture of what they thought our backdrops should look like. as always, some kids finished more quickly than others... zach chose to use his free time wisely by crawling all over me like a jungle gym. at one point he came up behind me and put his arms around my neck and put his face next to mine. instinctively i bent down so he felt like he was going to fall over. he giggled and as i was letting his feet come back to the ground he said

[don't forget to picture this with his lateral lisp]

"peggy i can see your boobs"

"uh oh" i said causally while i quickly glanced to see if my cleavage wasn't going out of control... it wasn't... he just happened to have a good angle.

"peggy you have really big boobs"

laughing to myself: "oh okay zach, that's enough" trying to maintain the causal i'm not shocked sound in my voice.

"no peggy- they are like the biggest boobs in the whole world!"

now struggling to not laugh out loud: "ZACH... you can't say things like that- it's not nice to say things like that."

"okay."


later he tried to grab at my chest... ZACH!!! wich i had to very nonchalantly tell him that that was my body and he needed to be respectful of it. then he stopped.

it starts early doesn't it??? sheesh.

so later, as i was telling this story to a friend of mine here at the theater, she mentioned that she figured i could include that as a selling point for my future classes... something like this

PEGGY: teacher extrodinare
you'll laugh, you'll create, you'll learn to become other creatures

"she's the funnest teacher i ever had!"
- sally sweety

"she's got the biggest boobs in all the world"
- zach bladiblohbloh

what do you think?