Funny funny funny?

There are things you teach your 2-year-old that seem incredibly funny at the time but then you start to think, how funny will this be if he's still doing this at 5 or 6? Take for instance, Mr. Copycat. Eli likes to copy the things I'm doing and it never fails to make me laugh. When I laugh, he does it more. I used to wear a lot of headbands in my hair. Eli would always pull them out of my hair and put them in his own. Then he would laugh and run around. He wouldn't want to take it off when I asked for it back because he looked like Mommy. I laughed at this for a really long time. I stopped wearing headbands anyway so this problem has mostly taken care of itself.

Mark accuses me of dressing Eli in bad clothes just so I can laugh. This is mostly not true. Only once did I let him run around in our living room (and just outside our front door) with his camouflage shirt, diaper (no pants) and his aunt's white sandals (she is also 2 years old). He insisted on putting on the shoes and once he did, I couldn't stop laughing for 5 minutes straight. That's about the time when my sister (this one is 28 years old) came to visit and got a good laugh too.

The biggest cause for concern, but one that offers the most laughs, is the "Booty". We taught Eli to call the butt, "booty". He would fall down and say, "Fall booty". This made me laugh because it was coming out of his little 2-year-old mouth. Then we transitioned. I started pinching his diaper and saying, "booty booty booty" and he would roll on the ground laughing. Now, he runs up to people and tries to pinch their butts, yelling "booty booty booty". He sometimes is polite enough to ask , "Daddy Booties?" I can't get enough of this now, but what if he is still doing this in 3 or 4 years. What if I get a call from his Kindergarten teacher saying he is pinching fellow classmates' butts and yelling, "booty booty booty"?

What kind of mother am I? One that likes to laugh...