Fat Legs

I should know better.

Last night I made a comment about my 25 month-old's cute, little, fat legs chugging down the hall (it's absolutely endearing!). Almost immediately, N, who I didn't know was even listening, demanded, "are you calling mine and I's legs fat?" My response: "I didn't say anything about your legs." I tried to explain that we can appreciated all shapes and sizes. But he insisted that my calling I's legs, "fat" was a comment about the fatness of his own legs. He had already made a comment earlier in the day about his legs being fat. For the most part, I've learned to ignore those sorts of things. My husband's comment was, "I can't believe you just said that."

I should know better.