Doin' ????

Ty's favorite new question is, "Doin'???". Not Why, Not How, Not Where....Doin'! He says it in a manner of different ways, such as:

Mommy Doin'?
Daddy Doin'?
Mocha Doin'?
Doin' Mommy?
Doin' Daddy?
Doin' Ty?

Hundreds of times a day we answer the simple question, Doin'? Sometimes he asks the "Doin'" question 15 times in a fifteen minute drive to Target...all the time receiving the SAME ANSWER! Jeff and I have learned that it is easier to laugh at the question than anything.

So today...
We are rushing home from Mrs. Debbie's because Ty didn't want to leave (all of his friends had returned from summer break and they where having a blast playing together and making a huge ruckus). We had to rush because Adams Exterminating was to be at our house at 3:30-4:00 to spray for a plethora of spiders that have invaded our humble home! Spider webs drive me CRAZY, by the way. So, after many pleas and moans my sweet husband called and made an appointment for them to spray INSIDE, not just outside.

In the car, I am talking with Ty and letting him know that the Exterminator will be at the house very shortly. Of course Exterminator doesn't register with Ty...so I say...The BUG MAN will be at our house and we need to get home quickly.

We arrive and the BUG MAN is already spraying the perimeter of the house for our normal outside pests. Ty automatically says, BUG MAN doin' Mommy? I answer..."Spraying for Bugs". We unload the car, enter the house, put away our things and all in a manner of minutes Ty has asked me 10 times, "BUG MAN doin' Mommy?" I reply..."Spraying for Bugs, Ty."

The BUG MAN then enters the house and commences to spraying the entire interior of the house...Ty then commences to following him from room to room, all the time asking, BUG MAN doin'? BUG MAN doin'? BUG MAN doin'? Now, mind you the inflection ranged from extremely curious to downright confused. After many, many, many responses of "Spraying for spiders, so we don't have to clean up anymore spider webs. Spraying for bugs so that bugs won't live in our house, they will stay outside...so on and so on.. He then would throw in a random, BUGS doin' Mommy? Mommy's reply = "Running for their lives, Ty".

I am absolutely positive that the BUG MAN probably did not appreciate being called the BUG MAN...but he heard it at least 100 times in the 20 minutes it took him to spray our house. The BUG MAN fascination didn't leave with the BUG MAN...it lingered into the cooking of dinner and even into our bath time! The replies changed...I'm sure the BUG MAN is eating Dinner too, Ty. I am sure the BUG MAN is watching TV, Ty!

Oh...the things your children say and do! And oh...the lessons we learn when we teach children titles. Yes, chalk that up to a lesson learned by Mommy! I will remember next time to just teach him the word EXTERMINATOR. Maybe saying that 100 times will be a little too daunting!