This might get ugly

So, there I am minding my own business, tucking my children in to bed when a small, niggling thought burrows it's way to my frontal lobe, not unlike a chigger falling from the Spanish Moss overhead to your unsuspecting skin, where it then sets up housekeeping and constructs superhighways. Last year I had mentioned to the pediatrician that the oldest of my offspring had seemed to sprout two or three underarm hairs, and I was concerned this might be signalling the onset of precocious puberty. Or, as I like to refer to it, the fifth ring of hell. I was assured my by lovely, fully bearded and board certified ped, that it was just a few aberrant hairs and "pooberty" was still a ways off. Sigh of relief heard around the world. Many months have passed, and on whim (why do I insist on following those things?) I checked my boyo's left armpit. I know it's weird, I'm a nurse, that's what we do. Still just the few little stragglies that were originally there. My sweet boy then starts giggling and says, "The other one has hair." Huh? So, I check and OH MY HECK! There is a tuft of what can only be called "man fuzz."

Yes, I am freak enough to take a picture of it! Stunned, I was! And to prove it, here is the other side with a nearly complete lack of aforementioned man fuzz. If it only exists on one side, is he considered half a man?

Holy crap! It is not enough that I don't have to bend down to look him in the eyes when we talk? No, I have to be cursed with a nine year old who will not only tower over me in about 6 months, but will also be using up all the shaving cream and razor blades. All I have to say is if my lotion starts disappearing, I'm going to take a little mental vacation. Say, until he graduates . How can this sweet face be about to sprout all kinds of fugly adolescent angst and body hair?

It's kind of a chicken and the egg situation: what came first, the body hair or the nocturnal emissions?





As a side note, Spawn of Satan got jealous of his brother getting all the pictures taken and insisted on one for him. I insisted on not getting arrested for kiddie porn, so he acquiesced to covering up.

Note the eyes despite the red-eye eliminator active on the camera