Boys will be vulgar boys
Don't blame us, it's genetic.

Let's begin with the reminder that Yoshi is 11 days from being 13 months.

Yoshi and Shingen were with me in the bed this morning as Gen has a bunch of work-related stuff to do (they go nuts when she is not around).

We were all sorta just sitting there, watching baseball. I needed to fart, so I did and a really loud one trumpeted out.

Yoshi busts out in laughter. Funniest thing ever, at least in awhile. He's sitting there clapping like made and laughing, and then trying to hug me. For farting.

Shingen is laughing at this nervously like "Dude, it's just a loud fart, it's not that funny."

Of course you doubt a little that he's laughing at the fart, like it's just the noise. That he doesn't understand bodily functions. By now you know that is not the case, as my recurring theme is "babies are smarter than you think" and that I have some sort of interesting anecdote to prove it.

And you're right, I do.

Yoshi sucks on a bottle at night, even while empty, so that all he is sucking down is air.

He takes his bottle and sucks on it.

About 2 minutes later, he stands up, turns towards me and burps loudly.

He starts clapping and doing the "Maniac" video...you know, Flashdance?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppxsWLXVs3E - 23 seconds in if you can't recall the move. But he pumps his legs and claps when he's excited.

Even Shingen started laughing there. He looked at me like "wow" and "that was strange."

I think he thought I burped, but regardless, he saw my vulgar male noisemaking and raised me.