Kael, let's hook up!

It's funny how kids do the most innocent things but adults somehow always manage to twist it into something else. Something... dirty.

Take Kael and Ryan for example. These two boys play and hang out so much that they are like brothers (I call them Ebony and Ivory). And like true brothers, they have a love-hate relationship. At the playground whoever gets to the steps first will either (1) sit there or (2) go really really slow just to prove he's the Supreme Ruler of the Steps. No one can get past.

One time Ryan got to the steps first and just laid there, his bottom half still hanging down on the steps while his top half was resting on the platform. He did this because Kael was behind him and wanted up the steps. Getting frustrated, Kael used his hips to push Ryan up the steps. And Ryan pushed back, also with his hips. So there they were: the two boys locked in a battle, using their hips in an attempt to... err, thrust... the other off.

The boys, they were getting mad and yelling at each other, see-sawing back and forth. Shana and I, we were laughing because it was really funny. In a dirty kind of way. Then Shana says to me, why is my boy always on the bottom?? Which reminded me of another incident when the boys were battling it out. Kael tackled Ryan and was on top of Ryan. Flat on top, wouldn't let Ryan up. Ryan was getting really mad and was trying to push Kael off, but he couldn't get his arms in the right position to push off. Instead, he used his (you guessed it) hips to try and dislodge Kael. What resulted was (this is really hard to describe) Kael's hips would bounce up whenever Ryan bounced his hips to get Kael off him. This up and down motion happened several times while Shana and I looked on with our our mouths open, realizing that it was totally innocent but at the same time, looked so compromising. And then trying not to bust a gut laughing because if we did, that would just encourage the boys even more.

Last Friday Shana and I happened to run into each other at Target after school. The boys were running around playing Pirates with their foam hooks, hooking things and pulling them down. At one point Ryan says to Kael: "Hey Kael! Let's hook up!" Totally TOTALLY innocent, but being dirty old women, Shana and I shared a looked and started laughing.

What can I say? Kael's a lover, not a fighter.