Uh...What do you say to this?

[tracilicious]

Tonight we decided to take the kids and head out to a nearby Greek restaurant. The food was fantastic, and while we were tolerating our terribly slow service, a belly dancer came out and started dancing. Indi was fairly mesmerized by this very pretty Greek woman gyrating around the restaurant. He sees customers giving her money (by way of sticking in her skirt) and he wants to do it too. Ok, harmless enough, so we give him a few dollars. He stands in his chair and starts waving his dollar to give her. As soon as she notices him and starts coming over he throws his dollar at her. We explain that people usually just hand it to her or stick it in the rim of her skirt. She comes around for the second dollar and he gladly places it on her hip.

As she dances on the other side of the restaurant he tells me, "Mommy, I really want to see her naked." A normal human reaction, but he's not even four yet!!!! I was just like, "Oh really" as casually as I possibly could given that I was trying to both not fall out of my chair with shock and not crack up laughing. The next thing he says is, "She wants more money!" So, not wanting to give the impression that I disapproved of his feelings for the woman, I gave him a few more dollars.

She comes over and is standing waiting for him to put the money in, not really paying much attention. I look over just in time to see him stuff the money right in the middle of her very low skirt, in the front. I.e. crotch. Now, I don't think he was intentionally trying to cop a feel (can you use that for crotch, or is it just boobs?), as he doesn't have a clue about sex. I'll just call it primal instinct. He spent the rest of the time watching her and asking for more money. Luckily, I was out of dollars. Then the entire car trip home he talked about the "belly lady" and her bellybutton ring and her tattoo and how he wanted to go back and see her again.

Sigh...I didn't expect it to start this early!