The Wife and I have a lot of friends, and they’re all having babies. All of them. So we’ve obviously learned a thing or two about buying baby gifts and shopping for baby showers. (I like to imagine “baby showers” as these David Lynchian nightmares in which absurdly pregnant women are bombarded by steaming-hot infants.) In advance of a particular baby shower in the summer of 2011, we went to a children’s clothing boutique in Portland, Oregon, at the Uptown Shopping Center on West Burnside called Mimi & Marc. There, we found a tiny outfit apparently intended for a newborn:
THE WIFE: “Look how small it is. Definitely for a fresh baby.”
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I am falling in love with your wife through your blog. How can someone not adore these sayings!
Haw haw! Right?! They kill me on a daily basis. It’s all I can do to stop laughing and hold my iPhone steady as I record them.
Ja, they are small, alright … until time comes for quetsching them raus :) Love, cat.
Oh God, the horror. :)
well, with the phrase ‘bun in the oven’, it makes sense :) a fresh baby = fresh out of the oven!
Is that why she said it? Man, I just thought she wanted to eat it. :P
Looking at a pregnant woman some people would say it like this:
“Look at her, she has a roast in the oven”
But of course this is not a very polite way to say it.
I think that’s a hilarious way to say it. :)
Follwing your German wifes’s logic, would a “day-old” baby be “stale”?
HAW HAW HAW
I’ve always marveled that folks in the States (and perhaps elsewhere) often refer to a ‘new baby’ — is there any such thing as an ‘old baby’?
Benjamin Button? :) “Stupid old man baby…”
You live the lost in translation life for sure – ha!
That’s us too right now. Everyone is pregnant, they’re all having boys, and they’re all due in June.
Haw haw!
I want a German wife!
Haw haw! Totally!
lol! A fresh baby! Awesome!
I need to start listening to my Germany boyfriend a bit more..he does come up with some funny things sometimes! Bunch of weirdos!
But we love them anyway!
so true! :-)
As opposed to a stale one! LOL
Exactly! When she said that, I just knew I had to write it down and share it with the world. :)
Is there a similar expression for a brand-new baby in Ugandan?
haha…no, unfortunately. The Germans are still unbeaten in that area.
By the way, the Ugandan and German flags look very much alike, except our colour sequence is black, yellow, red. I always wonder how that happened…
They are similar! More stripes on the Ugandan flag, of course, but eerily similar.