class it up

so, i don't think its any secret that dan and i share the same dirty humor.
we find talking about boobs, poop, burps and farts quite humorous. we all laugh when dan lets out a big burp. we point out the good cleavage shot at the woman pushing the stroller during baby einsteins "on the go", we all make a big "stink" when griffin farts. (of course I don't do any of these things....hehe)

i think its time we may have to start classing it up. griffin is turning into us.

he will proudly exclaim: "i burped", or "i fart" "that's nasty"
we all laugh and high five him.
we have been teaching him to at LEAST say "excuse me" so...don't banish us to the trailer court just yet!

he points at butts and says "poop". we all laugh. our friends have encouraged this and so have we. he now will point at his stuffed animals back side and say "poop", and falls to the floor and laughs. he will point at the butt area of some old woman bent over and say "poop".
he has now started saying "boobs" and pointing to none other than boobs. mine, people on TV, stuffed animals, woman in my "women's health" magazines, etc. i'm sure next up is random folks. (or god forbid...miss yvonne's)

i guess i finally realize why gregg and dawn were so annoyed with us when jake was around 2-3 and we would sub in the word "poop" for everything. jake was fascinated with this word then too. and we just egged him on.
"hey jake, do you want to go the poopground and go down the slides?" (giggles from all of us..glares from gregg/dawn.)
"hey jake, should we make some poopcorn to eat while watching this movie?" (me being quite impressed with myself for my latest poop drop, gregg/dawn escorting us out of the house)
Our favorite one....jake was really into saying aerodynamic to describe airplanes. of COURSE we changed that right away to "aerodypoopie" (dan, jake and i dying of laughter on this one..., gregg and dawn taking away our godparent rights)

anyway....now what do we do! we started this...and i guess we have to end this. while i will always think its funny...it's high time we class it up and teach our kid some manners.

dan and i have a lot of things we say we are going to really start doing when it comes to parenting.
we are going to make healthier meals and snacks for griffin
we are going to start cutting out his evening milk
we are going to start working on the potty training
we are going to start letting griffin play on his own a bit more...let him take more chances and us stop being too overprotective
we are going to start thinking about transitioning him out of his crib

all of these things are really important and we have talked about our strategy on how to start these things.
but what about teaching him manners? why are we still letting him slurp his milk right out of the cereal bowl? why do we let him gurgle his water (at the table no less)? why do i load up a squirt gun with milk and squirt it into his mouth as his lunch-time beverage? and why do we keep saying "poop" and pointing to butts?

ok, now that i got that all off my chest (err..boobs), i feel better (and slightly embarrassed).