IEEEEeeeeeeee

Like any little boy, my husband and I love tickling our son and have been doing so for a long amount of time since my son is super ticklish and enjoys being tickled.  My son is most ticklish on his chest, in-between his chest and arm pits.  Since this is where he gives us the best reaction, this is where we tickle him most.  My son is now at the copy cat phase and has decided to start tickling us back.  Of course a 19 month old doesn’t realize the subtlety of tickling, but he copies the movements as best he can by grabbing any skin he can get his hands on.  Of course we realize what he was doing so we thought it was adorable and always gave him a big reaction so he greatly enjoyed the sport of tickling people.  As a mom, we are so used to our children pulling on us and smacking us all over that often times we don’t take notice that his “tickling” hands are actually grabbing our chests.  I mean that’s where we tickle him; of course he would copy that.  The reality of his tickling didn’t hit home until I had several girlfriends over. My son, now a practiced tickler LOVED tickling anybody and in his excitement he always gave a high pitched IEEEEEEeeeeeeee noise as he grabbed at us to tickle us.

Well, as I mentioned I had a friend over and she had my son on her lap so that they were facing each other and playing and my son decided this would be a great opportunity to tickle my friend.  With a high pitch IEEEeeeeeeee, he began grabbing her chest.  As I mentioned earlier as a mom I never really took notice of this until my son had his hand on my friend’s bosoms screaming in delight.  My poor son had no idea what he was doing and my friend took it all in good stride as I explained what he was attempting to do.  She laughed for him and joked she would tell her husband she got to second base with a cute boy.  We tried to persuade him to tickle lower on the sides or the belly and dropped the issue…that is until I had another female friend over and the same situation was repeated.  I am so thankful I have such understanding friends who will laugh at the hilarity of this with me.  This phase lasted a couple of months and my son tickled many people during his rampage, but I am glad to say the need to “tickle” women’s chests have subsided so never fear you will no longer be molested by my son if you pay a visit to our house!