So when my sister came to visit her niece she remarked that she was a sucker baby.
I wasn't familiar with this term so she explained that it was the baby that was so good it suckers you into having another one only the next one turns out to be a nightmare.
Never heard of it, I thought, but ok. I was a new mom and maybe this was mom termology. I had also been out of the country for almost 8 years so it was very possible this was new slang and I wasn't up to date (like a whip is a car?).
It was a handy term and I used it whenever people asked me how things were going with my daughter. I even taught to to French people.
Then I got called out.
Friend: Wait, what did you say?
Me: She's a sucker baby.
Friend: [blank look]
Me: You know, when a baby is so good she suckers you into having another one...
Friend: Is that a French thing?
Me: No...
Friend: Ok, I'm going to have to stop you right there. That's not a thing.
Me: Sure it is.
Friend: No it's not.
Me: Yes, it is!
Friend: [takes a survey from people all around us. Nobody has heard of it]
Me: It's a thing! My sister used it.
To settle it we asked the all knowing one. Google. No hits.
I had to conceed. So I called my sister over to 'splain herself. She called over her husband from whom she heard this term to 'splain himself. Maybe I made it up he admitted.
So now I have no way to describe my baby. The term is so useful I may just keep on using it. Just wait, it'll be a thing.
I wasn't familiar with this term so she explained that it was the baby that was so good it suckers you into having another one only the next one turns out to be a nightmare.
Never heard of it, I thought, but ok. I was a new mom and maybe this was mom termology. I had also been out of the country for almost 8 years so it was very possible this was new slang and I wasn't up to date (like a whip is a car?).
It was a handy term and I used it whenever people asked me how things were going with my daughter. I even taught to to French people.
Then I got called out.
Friend: Wait, what did you say?
Me: She's a sucker baby.
Friend: [blank look]
Me: You know, when a baby is so good she suckers you into having another one...
Friend: Is that a French thing?
Me: No...
Friend: Ok, I'm going to have to stop you right there. That's not a thing.
Me: Sure it is.
Friend: No it's not.
Me: Yes, it is!
Friend: [takes a survey from people all around us. Nobody has heard of it]
Me: It's a thing! My sister used it.
To settle it we asked the all knowing one. Google. No hits.
I had to conceed. So I called my sister over to 'splain herself. She called over her husband from whom she heard this term to 'splain himself. Maybe I made it up he admitted.
So now I have no way to describe my baby. The term is so useful I may just keep on using it. Just wait, it'll be a thing.
