X-Rated

Last weekend Uncle Brian came down for a visit. He brought Cheryl, his new girlfriend, to meet us. The whole idea of Uncle Brian having a girlfriend has taken some adjusting on Pook’s part. For the past couple weeks, every time I’ve mentioned him, she has burst into tears and said, “I liked it when he din’t have a girlfriend!” I imagine Abigail feels the same way!

Saturday, we were on our way to meet Brian and Cheryl at the house that we are buying. Beanie asked me if they had gotten married yet and I said no. She then explained to Pookie that “if he marries her, we will have another aunt! That’s another person to buy us presents and love us!” Pook decided to count how many aunts they have. It went something like this. “One is Aunt Kim, two is Gramma, three is Grampa, four is Aunt Bet, five is Uncle Brian, six is Belinda, seven is Princess Jackie, eight is Aunt Robynn, nine and ten is Big Momma and Granna…” She finally ended up with, “and Aunt ‘Marshall’ makes fourteen! Momma! We are so lucky, we have fourteen people who love us!” It took me a minute to figure out who Aunt Marshall was.

We got to the house first and were talking about plans for the day while I helped the kids get out of the vancar. Beanie wanted to know if Brian and Marshall, I mean Cheryl, were going with us to the park after lunch. I told her that they might, but that I didn’t know what other plans they had. She said, “Maybe they have plans for ‘sahggy’.” “What?” “Maybe they are planning to have sahggy!” This was followed by lots of giggling from both girls. “What?” “You know, sahggy.” “What is sahggy?” “Sahggy…sacky? Saxy!” (More giggling.) “Oh. What is saxy?” “When you take off all your clothes and lay on the bed and kiss each other!” (OH MY GOD!) Both girls dissolved into fits of giggles then. Finally Pook caught her breath and said, “Beanie, you are too crazy! Brian and Marshall don’t do that!”