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It’s hard to imagine that as an adult there was a time when we once didn’t know how to fart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

I am sure that there have been times in our lives when one has slipped out at the wrong time<\/strong> and we certainly wished we didn’t know how.<\/p>\n

\"Learning<\/a>

Cheeky wind smile<\/p><\/div>\n

Savannah has been teaching me that in our lives there is always that time and place when we didn’t know how to do the things that seem so effortless to us now.<\/p>\n

And at the time trying to learn it was full of pain and grunts<\/strong>, until we finally figured it out.<\/p>\n

The other night, Savannah and I spent several hours together as I tried to teach her how to fart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At midnight, the pain of not knowing obviously got too much for her as she grunted and trapped-fart-pain<\/strong> moaned for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n

I rubbed her tummy, cycled her legs and lifted them up in the air. She pushed, almost to the extent I did when giving birth to her<\/strong><\/a>. Her face reddened and the moans kept coming.<\/p>\n

Every now and then a small fart would pop out, but not enough to relieve her.<\/p>\n

Then finally the big motorbike came roaring along and finished with a big sloppy poo. I know, too much information right?<\/p>\n

“Oh my god Savannah, I bet that felt good. Good girl. Is your tummy better now?”<\/em><\/p>\n

She leaned back with the sigh of a starving person who has just eaten the meal of their life. Relief washed all over her face and I giggled. Ah the things you find joyful at two am after a sleepless night.<\/p>\n

I relished in it,<\/strong><\/a> knowing that in a couple of years time I would be telling her to mind her manners<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Tonight she did the motorbike again. It was done with no help on my part, but that sneaky look of contentment and relief passed by her face.<\/p>\n

My girl is learning.<\/p>\n

Learning anything new in our life is just like learning to fart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eventually we’ll get there and when we do we will wonder what we found so difficult<\/strong> about it in the first place. We’ll be so relieved we stuck with it and conquered the ability to create noise from our arse<\/strong> and make others giggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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