We are back to civilization. Well, NYC. I am so happy to have electricity and running water. But instead of telling you about my euphoria, I will share a recent conversation that I had with my 10 year old son, Young Ladrinka.
“My leg pit itches.”
“What?”
“My leg pit is itchy.”
“Leg pit?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s a leg pit?”
“Right here.”
“That area is called behind your knee.”
“Why? Leg pit is faster to say.”
“Yes, fast is the word that I was looking for to describe this conversation.”
One year ago ...
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Twitter: nystoopmama
August 31, 2011 at 6:43 pm
(whispering) I call it a leg pit, sometimes. Maybe.
Twitter: ludakristen
August 31, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Young Ladrinka = genius.
Bwahahah my youngest calls the inside of her leg where it attaches to her hip her butt wrist! I was like your what?????she’s all my butt wrist!
Twitter: waitinthevan
August 31, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Omg, I totally call it the leg pit, too.
This is awkward.
Twitter: Stimey
August 31, 2011 at 10:37 pm
My kid calls it the leg pit as well. As in, “Tickling me in the leg pit is my weakness.” Evidently the leg pit is his Achilles heel.
Twitter: spitupchronicle
August 31, 2011 at 11:21 pm
HA! My husband says leg pit too! I was definitely confused the first time he said it!
Twitter: mannahattamamma
September 1, 2011 at 12:46 am
So then this other place, where my swags of back fat meet my front fat–should I be calling that “behind my shoulder”? Using proper anatomical terms is so important.
Your son should start teaching ‘English , our creative language’ classes 🙂
Twitter: asideofrice
September 1, 2011 at 7:26 am
I am going to have to find a way to enter “leg pit” into a conversation today.
Awesome. In my family we call it the knee pit.
I’m with K. We call it the knee pit.
hmmm….so what does he call the inside of his elbow? does he have 4 arm pits?
Twitter: librrra
September 1, 2011 at 11:03 am
didn’t see your comment! My point exactly )
It’s called the crelbow
I would guess that it is the space between big toes.
Nice. If he starts putting deodorant on it you might want to get concerned. My oldest son told me he put deodorant on his feet once because they were, “really stinky.”
Twitter: librrra
September 1, 2011 at 11:02 am
This is a fallacious argument. How would he call an area behind an elbow then?
Does calling it leg pit mean we have to shave there too?
Crap! I already do.
Twitter: lainiegal
September 2, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I always called it a leg pit growing up. I have an elbow pit as well.
In my family we alos have an elbow pit…it cracks other people up when they hear my children refer to thier elbow pit. It just seems obvious to them.
My six-year-old son calls it “leg pit” too. And all summer he has been serenading us with a distinctive sound that he makes with *both* his leg pit *and* his arm pit.
We’ve been itching our leg pits for years. Ever since my 3 year old popped out of the tub and uttered this brilliance. Good stuff!