(Jenn)
This week Henry learned a new skill: fake-burping. I was pretty impressed because I remember trying to do it in elementary school, and I could never figure it out! And here, my two-year-old has it mastered. I think yesterday he probably burped a hundred times, no exaggeration. He just kept going and going and going. Some of them got kind of loud and gross-sounding, which is when I started thinking maybe something would have to be done. We went to a friend's house for a playdate and he kept doing it there. Last night Ben and I talked to Henry about how it is not really very polite to burp. He thought about that for a good 45 minutes (while doing other things) and then asked, "Daddy, what do I do about that?" "About what?" Ben asked. "About how to stop burping," he replied in earnest. Now I'm starting to wonder if this new talent is perhaps involuntary. Is there some sort of belching disorder I don't know about?
2 comments:
I don't see anything wrong with ingesting air and then forcing it back up. Except it's a little unnatural. Anyway, I'm glad he's a quick learner. Maybe you should give him a bike soon. :-)
That is talent! He'll probably be the coolest kid in the woman haters club! haha! The only "belching disorder" I can think of in kids that has repetitive belching is Gastroesophageal reflux disease...but he'd have lots of other symptoms that would be more prominent.
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