Pu Project #MiraclesHappenInSpring

I am participating in the project by Hayashippu♡ & Akkiy☆❣️

As I wrote in a past article, I will participate with episodes from when my sons, who are already adults, were children!

My eldest son started talking early, but potty training didn't go well at all, and I realized that the ability to speak and the ability to signal when you need to pee are apparently different functions.

He often had accidents at kindergarten, so I always made sure he had spare pants, but one day he had an accident during gym class, and when the teacher tried to quickly put him in the kindergarten's spare pants,
“I have my own pants. They are in my bag in the classroom!”
he apparently refused to wear them at all.
If you can explain that much, why don't you say you want to go to the toilet!
I'm sure the teacher thought the same thing😂

My second son was born chubby, and perhaps because he had been listening to the noise of his older brother and his friends since he was in the womb, he was a child who slept well and wouldn't wake up for just any noise🤱
His speech wasn't that early either, and perhaps he sometimes had his brother, who was four years older, do things he couldn't do himself.
However, because he couldn't speak fluently, what he expressed in words based on his sensibilities was interesting.

“My tummy went 'goo-no-hoi'!”

“The laundry is fighting 'eiya-toiya'!” (Watching the laundry blowing in the strong wind)👕

“It's a soap bubble train!”🫧
(Watching the soap bubbles flowing down his legs in the bath)

When his brother ordered dice steak,
“Does dice steak have 1 or 2 written on it?”

He became proud that he could read a digital clock, 1:25 “One-o-clock twenty-two-minutes-go”

“Ah, I can hear the nice smell of dumplings.”

“Man, these kindergarten uniforms are so uncool.”

Come to think of it, when I turned these words from that time into senryu, they were published in the newspaper's “Chibikko Haidan” (Kids' Haiku Column) about three times.
Thinking about it, he was writing senryu before I was😆

〈Conversation with Mom〉
Second son: Mom, put green onions in again!
Mom: Huh? In your bento?
Second son: No. In the bath.
Mom: Oh, that's an iris (shobu)...

〈Conversation with Dad〉
Second son: Is God always watching me?
Dad: Yes, he is.
Second son: Even when I'm pooping?
Dad: ...I wonder?
Second son: But I've never seen God.
Dad: Normal people can't see him.
Second son: Then, God must be an invisible man.

〈Conversation between brothers (8 and 4 years old)〉
When the younger brother couldn't open a snack bag and handed it to his brother
Older brother: What are you supposed to say at times like this?
Younger brother: ...
Older brother: ...Oh?
Younger brother: (^o^)! Big brother, open it!
Older brother: ...
The older brother thought, well, I guess that's one way to say it, and opened it for him. Apparently, he really wanted him to say “Please!”...

The mispronunciations of my second son when he was 2 might rival those of Yuji Miyake's wife^ ^
“This chocolate has 'Adonmo' stuck to it.”
“'Great-floop' is sour.”
“Big brother, are you taking your 'landress'?”
And countless others...
Ito-Koya-do (Ito-Yokado), surebidai (slide), kamishibari (paper theater), jamaigo (potato), heripokuta (helicopter), kazemigi (feeling like a cold), orimagi (origami), senkupi (electric fan), sakasana (katakana), etc...
One time, while eating caramel sent by my younger sister's family who lived in America, he said,
“As expected, 'Aremica' caramel is delicious.”
That's a harder way to say it, isn't it...

An incident when my second son was 4 years old
Mom: “Let's buy some croquettes on the way home today!”
The second son immediately replied,
“Adults these days, huh...”

When he received an alarm clock from his grandfather's house, when he brought it home, the alarm clock suddenly started ringing⏰
Second son: “I wonder if it's crying, 'Where am I?'”

Seeing a sausage I had burned one time,
Second son: “Why does the sausage look like a sunset?”
Mom: “Oh, you're a romanticist.”
Second son: “What's a 'romanti-crap'?”

My second son farted, so when I said, “Go do a poop!”, he quickly took off his pants and underwear and
“Are you about to poop?”
he asked his own butt.

Older brother: “I might go on the errand if my little brother goes.”
Second son: “Nothing good ever happens when you take me along.”

Second son: “Big brother is 'haki-haki' (energetic/crisp) today.”
(Actually, he was saying he was feeling sick and 'haki-haki' (vomiting))

Second son: “Mom, you don't seem to have much energy.”
Mom: “Yeah. I have a bit of a headache.”
After a while, he came to where I was resting with a worried face and
Second son: “Mom, is your head still bad?”
Mom: “...”

This is a fairy tale based on the brothers👇
ten-san illustrated the brothers.

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