So yesterday we drove from New Orleans over to Pensacola, Florida to shop at the stores there for my eBay business. We stopped in Tillman's Corner, Alabama for lunch at a Sonny's Real Pit BBQ (which had absolutely horrible service--so bad I only tipped 10%, which is something I NEVER do). While we were eating I told my daughter Marley that I had been born in Alabama. My parents were attending Samford University at the time, so it's not my fault. My daughter responded with "You were baptized here too." Our friends Shawn and Cindy Seley just baptized their daughter Caroline, so baptism has been on Marley's mind lately, even though in our faith children are not baptized until they begin to be accountable for their own actions at age 8. I told her that "No, I was baptized in Georgia." She is in her stage of having to respond with something different to everything you say to her. For example, if you say "That's my book", she'll respond, "No that's grandma's book." Well when I said that I was baptized in Georgia, and had only been a baby in Alabama (I lived there nine months), she had to have a comeback.
After a brief pause, all of a sudden I heard perhaps the funniest and most humbling thing my daughter has ever said: "You used to suck on boobs here."
I couldn't control my laughter for about 2 minutes. I laughed and laughed and tried to explain to my wife, between breaths and carcajadas, who didn't hear what Marley said, why I was causing such a scene in the restaurant. See my mom had been in town for the previous week and she and Marley love to talk about genealogy and about when I was a baby. For some reason, my mom loves to tell this story about the last time I nursed and how I looked her in the eyes and bit down hard on her nipple. I guess she told Marley that story (she tells everyone), hence my daughter's very public statement of my infant source of nourishment in Sweet Home Alabama.
We're off to Houston today to see what deals we can find. GO BRAVES!
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