this evening

Our house was filled with the simple pleasures of fart noises and giggles. Raine discovered while in the bathtub, that putting one end of a plastic straw in the bend of her knee and blowing through the other end would make a very loud and satisfying fart noise. It was just the funniest thing she had done in a long time.

You see, my perfect, dainty, feminine daughter really isn't dainty. At five, she is just at the age where all those bodily functions, especially farts, are endlessly hilarious. She walks around testing out various sounds and asking "did that sound like a fart?" It makes me wish she had a sibling to practice with instead of testing them all out on mommy... My hope is - since she's a girl - that she will one day grow out of it. At least the noise-making part, she can find farts funny forever if she wants to.

Her glee was, of course, contagious. How could it not be? Soon we were all laughing with her, and shaking our heads in that we-are-just-never-gonna-hear-the-end-of-that-noise way. Ah well, it really was loud and wet and full when she hit it just right. A thing of... beauty?