My younger son seems to have more scrotumnal issues than my elder. I think it's because he's hotter and sweatier in general, and the ball sack seems to be susceptible to the effects of sweat (Schwetty balls, anyone?). It would appear that the sharpei-like skin surrounding the nuts often sticks to the legs (a little side effect of the adhering properties of H2O. Those pesky polar molecules!) This must be some kind of uncomfortable, because my younger son really makes an effort to rectify the situation whenever he can. Or, and this is possible, his hand is just magnetically attracted to his junk.
Not having a twig and berries, I often mistake adjustment for having to pee. Because it looks pretty much the same: a grab, a shake, a grimace. That's my cue. So I ask, right? Well, let me tell you all about how that goes down with my boyz. Oh, and I'm a believer in correct terminology for body parts. Just to set it all up.
My mom and dad took the boys to a restaurant for dinner one night. Littler guy wanted to get up and refill his pop at some point during the meal. So he stands up and does this move, his unsticking move, that is like a deep knee bend with a little shimmy in it, often enhanced by a ball grab. Of course my mom, being on top of things, asks him if he has to go to the bathroom. He replies (and this is the child without an indoor voice--he projects), "No, my scrotum is stuck to my thigh and I was getting it off." Heads turned, snickers abounded (that cannot be right, I feel grammatically dirty), and my mom tried not to collapse in a heap of laughter and tears of embarrassment, simultaneously.
My mom came home and told me this story. I realized how often this happens. To the point where now it's get out of car, deep-knee-bend-shimmy-ballgrab, sigh, and, "Just my scrotum. You know." Carry on.
He'll want to remember this some day.
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Hilarious! I can just picture the whole scene. I'll be retelling this story a few times ...
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