passing the zbrt

'Zbrt'-- I'm sure you were wondering-- is the word for that thing you do when you press your mouth against someone's flesh and make a loud, wet raspberry right on their skin. Dean loves zbrting Sage's stomach. It's turned into a little ritual between them, which commences with Dean asking her, "Sage, do you know what time it is?"

Previously, Sage would look at him in complete innocence and say, "What time, Daddy?"

And Dean would crow victoriously, "It's time to kiss Sage's tummy!" Whereupon he would pounce on her and administer a gigantic zbrt on her stomach, resulting in a fit of hysterical giggling on her part.

She's a quick study, though. Lately, she's found a way to redirect her father's attentions. When he starts to say, "It's time to kiss--", she quickly interrupts him with, "Time to kiss Mommy's tummy!"

Whereupon they both pounce on me, and make a huge, slobbery mess of my tummy. Ah, the perils of raising a cunning child...