Oh yes he did.
When do our babies reach the stage where they take care of their own personal hygiene? because I, as the mother of a 10 year old boy am thinking it's time that I no longer want to be policing his finger and toe nail growth ( you should have seen them tonight!! he would have put shrek to shame). I don't want to be picking sleep out of his eyes on the way to school while also manoeuvring the car into a park as I'm brushing his hair down from a multi directional fuzz that only boys seem to get when they wake in the morning.
Asking him when was the last time he actually brushed his teeth instead of standing in the bathroom with the tap running pretending to do it. Yes this is the kind of crazy behaviour my boys put me through. They would rather waste 10 minutes watching water disappear down the drain than brush their teeth in 2 minutes. The furry yellow covering that blankets their teeth is a dead give-away, despite the new trick of wetting and smearing the tooth brush with paste to give it that "used" appeal.
They eat their boogers and seem to having a farting symphony on cue. They wear the same pair of underwear for as long as they can get away with. master 8 goes as far as putting on a clean pair over his dirty ones even if it means wearing 3 pairs come shower day.
Despite the odd smells and untamed growth we still love them to bits. and maybe just perhaps, yet I will never admit to them having said this, part of the special mother love between her and son is because of this very reason. They need us. They need us to care about changing socks before the socks can get up and walk on their own to the washing machine.
